Definition of "mensuration"

Of this ridge Soutra hill is supposed to be the highest; but hitherto no actual mensuration is known to have been taken of it : but, in judging by the view, from its elevated top, of the neighbouring hills and country, it must be upwards of 1500 feet high.

1805, Robert Forsyth, The beauties of Scotland - Volume 1, page 512

It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 267

The pointer readings will contain all the real information on the subject, and the extension of scientific principles will involve an extension of mensuration to include the new subject.

2013, P. D. Lark, B. R. Craven, R. C. L. Bosworth, The Handling of Chemical Data, page 1

With the passage of time I have realized that the illustrations can also serve, to some extent, to make mensuration more readily possible.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page ix

Different levels of mensuration have different roles in the musical structure. The most prominent one is the one corresponding to the compositional tactus. Rhythmic groups may contradict the mensuration temporarily, but in the examples in this book, they never do so throughout an entire piece.

2015, Ruth I. DeFord, Tactus, Mensuration and Rhythm in Renaissance Music, page 470

Forest mensuration, in many respects the most important branch of forestry, was nicely defined by Professor Henry S. Graves (1906) in the first complete volume on forest mensuration to appear in the Americas.

1973, Thomas W. Beers, Charles I. Miller, Manual of Forest Mensuration