Now rare. [ad. mod.L. stereometria, a. Gr. στερεομετρία, f. στερεό-ς solid + -μετρία: see -METRY. Cf. F. stéréométrie (1560 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The art or science of measuring solids; that branch of geometry that deals with solid figures, solid geometry; the practical application of this to the measurement of solid bodies.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., a iij b. The generall name of these Solide measures, is Stereometrie.
1594. R. Ashley, trans. Loys le Roy, 128. Plato affirmeth, that Geometrie was vnperfect in his time, and that Stereometrie, and the Cubike wanted.
1608. R. Norton, Stevin’s Disme, D 4. Gaudgerie is Stereometrie … but all Stereometrie is not Gaudgerie.
1673. J. Smith (title), Stereometrie; or the Art of Practical Gauging.
1674. Phil. Trans., IX. 88. In Stereometry, or Measuring of Solids as a tapering Timber.
1683. T. Everard (title), Stereometry made easie, or The description and use of a new Gauging rod, or Sliding rule.
1795. T. Maurice, Hindostan, I. xii. (1820), I. 439. From planimetry, or the mensuration of surfaces, they … proceeded to … stereometry, or the mensuration of solids.
1827. Gutteridge (title), A New System of Stereometry.
1874. Edin. Rev., July, 175. The text [of Dürer] … is full of detailed measurements, and calculations of the stereometry, or solid contents, of the several limbs.
2. The art of measuring specific gravities with a STEREOMETER (sense 1).
In recent Dicts.
