How To Use Mensuration In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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Through mensuration and research of the Interception by Canopy, Litter Moisture Content Impress and Soil water physical characteristics of Alnus cremastogyne Burli.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Similarly, even as sophisticated quantitative mensuration came gradually to supersede the qualitative analyses of medieval science, alchemists and astrologers serenely continued their work.
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This kind of mensuration reminds one of the disputes between French critics as to whether the unity of time meant thirty hours, or twenty-four, or twelve, or the actual time that it took to act the play; or of the geometric method of the "Saturday papers" in the _Spectator_.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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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.
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It is a work which covers arithmetic, algebra and mensuration.
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Chapter 13 consists of 55 verses on arithmetic, mensuration, and shadow reckoning.
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It is devoted mainly to arithmetic and algebra, with just a few problems on geometry and mensuration.
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Philosophical conversation should not be a search for commensuration, it should be, rather, hermeneutical.
Hermeneutics
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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.16
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
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Although appealing to a bargaining solution can give determinacy to a social contract, it does so at the cost of appealing to a controversial commensuration mechanism.
Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract
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Note 13: In the first passage of De pictura, Alberti borrows a Ciceronian proverb (from De amicitia 5.16) concerning the "coarse senses of Minerva" to distinguish the sensate knowledge of a painter from a mathematician's abstract mensurations (see Kemp, "Introduction," 12).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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It is a small treatise of seventeen folios in which we find nothing on mensuration that the arithmeticians of the East did not know.
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This section on mensuration certainly has more in common with Hindu and Hebrew texts than it does with any Greek work.
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Biometrics and forest mensuration are concerned with sampling and measuring properties such as stem form and biomass, site index, stand wood yield, etc.
Forestry
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But there is also a higher arithmetic, and a higher mensuration, which is exclusively theoretical; and a dialectical science, which is higher still and the truest and purest knowledge.
Philebus
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It is devoted mainly to arithmetic and algebra, with just a few problems on geometry and mensuration.
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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.
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Note 13: In the first passage of De pictura, Alberti borrows a Ciceronian proverb (from De amicitia 5.16) concerning the "coarse senses of Minerva" to distinguish the sensate knowledge of a painter from a mathematician's abstract mensurations (see Kemp, "Introduction," 12).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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SOCRATES: And when we compare the art of mensuration which is used in building with philosophical geometry, or the art of computation which is used in trading with exact calculation, shall we say of either of the pairs that it is one or two?
Philebus
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Are they earning in commensuration with market values or are there other veiled forces at play?
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Now it belongs not only to man but also to other animals to apprehend a thing absolutely; wherefore the right which we call natural is common to us and other animals according to the first kind of commensuration.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
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Lafe, I have said and will restate here again that people are entitled and in fact need to be compensated in commensuration with their expertise, knowledge, and yes, market value.
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I answer that, Right or just depends on commensuration with another person.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
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In those hundred and four hours a year -- hours which came after a tiring day's work -- his brain was fed upon "mensuration" and "the science of horticulture," the former on the chance that some day he might want to measure a wall for paper-hanging or do some other job of the sort, and the latter in case fate should have marked him out for a nursery-gardener, when it would be handy to know that germinating seeds begin by pushing down a root and pushing up a leaf or two.
Change in the Village
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The objective was to get imagery so that the intelligence specialists could do mensuration on anything that was casting a shadow.
BALANCE OF POWER
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But surely beauty is no idea belonging to mensuration; nor has it anything to do with calculation and geometry.
On the Sublime and Beautiful
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It is a work which covers arithmetic, algebra and mensuration.
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And when we compare the art of mensuration which is used in building with philosophical geometry, or the art of computation which is used in trading with exact calculation, shall we say of either of the pairs that it is one or two?
PHILEBUS
