mensuration
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The act, process, or art, of measuring.
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.
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the measurements were carefully done
his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
About this sound Play ( help · info ) The movement consists of a three-out-of-one mensuration canon.
A circle used as a mensuration sign indicated tempus perfectum (a circle being a symbol of completeness), while an incomplete circle, resembling a letter C, indicated tempus imperfectum.
The introduction of these led to a new issue, the need for very accurate three dimensional target coordinates – the mensuration process.
In contrast, the Ars Nova period introduced two important changes: the first was an even smaller subdivision of notes (semibreves, could now be divided into minim ), and the second was the development of "mensuration."