mensuration vs anthropometry

anthropometry vs mensuration

mensuration and anthropometry both are nouns.

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

As nouns, anthropometry is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, anthropometry 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
anthropometry: measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities

Other hyponyms of mensuration include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, 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)	anthropometry (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities

Difference between mensuration and anthropometry

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