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Mensuration vs Sounding - What's the difference?

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Mensuration is a related term of sounding.


As nouns the difference between mensuration and sounding

is that mensuration is the branch of mathematics that deals with measurement, especially the derivation and use of algebraic formulae to measure the areas, volumes and different parameters of geometric figures while sounding is the action of the verb to sound or sounding can be test made with a probe or sonde.

As an adjective sounding is

emitting a sound.

As a verb sounding is

.

mensuration

English

Noun

(-)
  • The branch of mathematics that deals with measurement, especially the derivation and use of algebraic formulae to measure the areas, volumes and different parameters of geometric figures.
  • *
    • With the passage of time I have realized that the illustrations can also serve, to some extent, to make mensuration more readily possible.

    Related terms

    * mensural

    References

    Mensuration Formulas

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    sounding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sownden, sounen, from (etyl) suner, (etyl) soner (modern sonner ), from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to sound .
    • The sounding of the bells woke me from sleep.
  • * (John Lightfoot)
    • And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day;
    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Emitting a sound.
    • The sounding bell woke me up.
  • sonorous
  • * Dryden
    • sounding words
  • * Edgar Allan Poe
    • In her tomb by the sounding sea.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Test made with a probe or sonde.
  • * 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography (page 189)
    • Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment
  • A measured depth of water.
    • The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
  • The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
  • The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

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