mensuration vs actinometry

actinometry vs mensuration

mensuration and actinometry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mensuration	Yes	No	No	No
actinometry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, actinometry is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, actinometry is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mensuration:

mensuration: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
actinometry: measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays)

Other hyponyms of mensuration include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, cephalometry, densitometry, dosimetry, fetometry, foetometry, gravimetry, hydrometry, hypsography, hypsometry, mental measurement, micrometry, observation, pelvimetry, photometry, quantification, radioactive dating, meter reading, reading, sampling, sounding, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

mensuration (noun)	actinometry (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays)

Difference between mensuration and actinometry

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