mensuration vs sounding

sounding vs mensuration

mensuration and sounding both are nouns.

mensuration is not an adjective while sounding is an adjective.

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

As nouns, sounding is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, sounding 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
sounding: the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)

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, sampling, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

mensuration (noun)	sounding (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
	a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line

mensuration (adjective)	sounding (adjective)
	making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
	having volume or deepness
	appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms

Difference between mensuration and sounding

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