mensuration vs quantification

quantification vs mensuration

mensuration and quantification both are nouns.

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

As nouns, quantification is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, quantification 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
quantification: the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something

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, photometry, 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)	quantification (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something
	a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')

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