Mensuration
/ˌmɛnʃəˈreɪʃən/noun
The act or process of measuring, especially of length, area, or volume.
Did you know?Mensuration ultimately comes from Latin metiri, “to measure,” a root that also gave English words like meter and metric, showing how measurement was once treated as a precise act of ordering the world.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*me-
“to measure”
Latin
Latin
metiri
“to measure”
Latin
Latin
mensuratio
“a measuring, measurement”
Old French
OF
mesuration
“measuring”
Middle English
English
mensuracioun
“measurement, the act of measuring”
Modern English
English
mensuration
“the act or process of measuring”