Mensuration

(n.) The act, process, or art, of measuring.

(n.) That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.

迦勒编辑

• Among the technical w ritings of Varro besides the book on agriculture, which is extant, are numbered works on law, mensuration, and naval tactics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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