mensuration vs surveying

surveying vs mensuration

mensuration and surveying both are nouns.

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

As nouns, surveying is a hyponym of mensuration; that is, surveying 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
surveying: the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map

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

mensuration (noun)	surveying (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map

Difference between mensuration and surveying

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