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How To Use mensuration In A Sentence

• Reply Obj. 3: The dimensive quantity of Christ's body is in this sacrament not by way of commensuration, which is proper to quantity, and to which it belongs for the greater to be extended beyond the lesser; but in the way mentioned above (ad 1, 2). Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• The subjects of instruction have all been retained in the Curriculum of the London School Board, except, perhaps, "mensuration" and "social economy. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
• All such attempts have either found no difference overall, or have foundered on criticisms of their methodology, mensuration, or validity. Ada Lovelace Day - The Panda's Thumb
• 'The very term mensuration sounds ENGINEER-LIKE,' I find him writing; and in truth what the engineer most properly deals with is that which can be measured, weighed, and numbered. Records of a Family of Engineers
• Through mensuration and research of the Interception by Canopy, Litter Moisture Content Impress and Soil water physical characteristics of Alnus cremastogyne Burli.
• For if a particular piece of land be considered absolutely, it contains no reason why it should belong to one man more than to another, but if it be considered in respect of its adaptability to cultivation, and the unmolested use of the land, it has a certain commensuration to be the property of one and not of another man, as the Philosopher shows. ' An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching
• Since even the desideratum of practical coherence is subject to such re-specification, this holistic possibility really does represent an alternative to commensuration, as the deliberator, and not some coherence standard, retains reflective sovereignty Moral Reasoning
• The calendar preceded the measures, and we should not be surprised to find that the word mensuration is still in force to describe accurate measurement of quantity - length, areas, volume.
• It involves the solution of polygons given certain sides and angles between them, their mensuration, division by diagonals, circumscribing polygons around circles and inscribing polygons in circles.
• Similarly, even as sophisticated quantitative mensuration came gradually to supersede the qualitative analyses of medieval science, alchemists and astrologers serenely continued their work.