Menstruum
(Men"stru*um) n.; pl. E. Menstruums L. Menstrua [L. menstruus. See Menstruous.]
Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.
The proper menstruum to dissolve metal.
Bacon.
All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients
by infusion or decoction.
Quincy. The use is supposed to have originated in some notion of the old chemists about the influence of the
moon in the preparation of dissolvents. Johnson.
Mensurability
(Men`su*ra*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. mensurabilité.] The quality of being mensurable.
Mensurable
(Men"su*ra*ble) a. [L. mensurabilis, fr. mensurare to measure, fr. mensura measure: cf.
F. mensurable. See Measurable, Measure.] Capable of being measured; measurable.
Mensurableness
(Men"su*ra*ble*ness), n. The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.
Mensural
(Men"su*ral) a. [L. mensuralis.] Of or pertaining to measure.
Mensurate
(Men"su*rate) v. t. [L. mensuratus, p. p. of mensurare. See Measure, v.] To measure.
[Obs.]
Mensuration
(Men`su*ra"tion) n. [L. mensuratio : cf. F. mensuration.]
1. The act, process, or art, of measuring.
2. That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces,
or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.
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ment
(-ment) [F. -ment, L. -mentum.] A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the
result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment,
piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement,
state of being amazed, astonishment.
