mensuration vs photometry

photometry vs mensuration

mensuration and photometry both are nouns.

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

As nouns, photometry is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, photometry 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
photometry: measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)

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, mental measurement, micrometry, observation, pelvimetry, 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)	photometry (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity)

Difference between mensuration and photometry

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