seismography vs mensuration

seismography and mensuration both are nouns.

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

As nouns, mensuration is a hypernym of seismography; that is, mensuration is a word with a broader meaning than seismography:

seismography: the measurement of tremors and shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes
mensuration: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

Other hypernyms of seismography include measure, measurement, measuring.

seismography (noun)	mensuration (noun)
the measurement of tremors and shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes	the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule