mensuration vs sampling

sampling vs mensuration

mensuration and sampling both are nouns.

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

As nouns, sampling is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, sampling 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
sampling: measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)

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, quantification, radioactive dating, meter reading, reading, sounding, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

mensuration (noun)	sampling (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
	measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
	items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

Difference between mensuration and sampling

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