mensuration vs mental measurement

mental measurement vs mensuration

mensuration and mental measurement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mensuration	Yes	No	No	No
mental measurement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mental measurement is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, mental measurement 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
mental measurement: a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions

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, hypsography, hypsometry, 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)	mental measurement (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions

Difference between mensuration and mental measurement

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