mensuration vs hypsography

hypsography vs mensuration

mensuration and hypsography both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hypsography is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, hypsography 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
hypsography: measurement of the elevation of land above sea level

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, dosimetry, fetometry, foetometry, gravimetry, hydrometry, 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)	hypsography (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measurement of the elevation of land above sea level
	the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level)

Difference between mensuration and hypsography

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