stereometry

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek στερεομετρία (stereometría), from στερεός (stereós, “solid”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɛɹiːˈɒmətɹi/

stereometry (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The science of measuring the volume of solids or solid bodies.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:

     , New York 2001, p.106:

     from measures known it is an easy matter to rectify weights, etc., to cast up all, and resolve bodies by algebra, stereometry.