mensuration vs bathymetry

bathymetry vs mensuration

mensuration and bathymetry both are nouns.

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

As nouns, bathymetry is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, bathymetry 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
bathymetry: measuring the depths of the oceans

Other hyponyms of mensuration include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, 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)	bathymetry (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measuring the depths of the oceans

Difference between mensuration and bathymetry

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