mensuration vs dosimetry

dosimetry vs mensuration

mensuration and dosimetry both are nouns.

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

As nouns, dosimetry is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, dosimetry 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
dosimetry: measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source

Other hyponyms of mensuration include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, cephalometry, densitometry, 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)	dosimetry (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source

Difference between mensuration and dosimetry

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