mensurations

plural of mensuration

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Noun
  • The team also pointed out that until now, direct measurements of heat loss from Enceladus had only been made at the south pole, where dramatic plumes of water ice and vapour erupt from deep fissures in the surface.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The hypothesis was based on the taking of distance measurements to faraway galaxies using type 1a supernovae, stellar explosions that occur in twin star systems where one of the stars is a white dwarf.
    Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Those same calculations on the remaining vested options, however, would almost certainly produce a number significantly lower than 25% of that original $500 million.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Political calculations have shaped the conduct of Imran Khan’s trial.
    Rafia Zakaria, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Using floppy modes—motions requiring almost no resistance—can guide predictable deformations, allowing materials to perform computations efficiently.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
  • And it’s now known that origami can be used to perform all sorts of computations.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Brown bears, mostly seen in Japan’s northernmost Hokkaido island, more than doubled in number in 30 years, according to government estimates – reaching 12,000 today.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • AeroMap estimates drag for different wing-body configurations operating at speeds close to the speed of sound.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • As for bigger-picture evaluations, Gabriel’s play might determine a lot.
    Zac Jackson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the job of being a professor became more tenuous and provisional—some 75 percent of faculty are nontenured, many working term to term, with the fate of their employment determined, in part, by student course evaluations.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Do-it-yourself assessments are affordable and still helpful.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Early assessments by experts suggest serious environmental damage.
    Elisha Iragi, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Mensurations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mensurations. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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