mensuration vs cephalometry

cephalometry vs mensuration

mensuration and cephalometry both are nouns.

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

As nouns, cephalometry is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, cephalometry 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
cephalometry: measurement of human heads

Other hyponyms of mensuration include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, 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)	cephalometry (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measurement of human heads

Difference between mensuration and cephalometry

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