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geometry

[ jee-om-i-tree ]

noun

, plural ge·om·e·tries.
  1. Mathematics. the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
  2. Mathematics. any specific system of the branch of mathematics describing points, lines, angles, and figures in space, that operates in accordance with a specific set of assumptions:

    Euclidean geometry.

  3. Mathematics. the study of the branch of mathematics that describes points, lines, angles, and figures in space.
  4. Mathematics. a book on the subject of the branch of mathematics that describes points, lines, angles, and figures in space, especially a textbook.
  5. the shape or form of a surface or solid.
  6. a design or arrangement of objects in simple rectilinear or curvilinear form.
  7. Digital Technology. the polygons that constitute the building blocks of every object or environment in a video game:

    Player characters getting stuck in geometry is a common glitch in 3D games.



geometry

/ dʒɪˈɒmɪtrɪ /

noun

  1. the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties, relationships, and measurement of points, lines, curves, and surfaces See also analytical geometry non-Euclidean geometry
    1. any branch of geometry using a particular notation or set of assumptions

      analytical geometry

    2. any branch of geometry referring to a particular set of objects

      solid geometry

  2. a shape, configuration, or arrangement
  3. arts the shape of a solid or a surface


geometry

/ jē-ŏmĭ-trē /

  1. The mathematical study of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, planes, surfaces, angles, and solids.


geometry

  1. The branch of mathematics that treats the properties, measurement, and relations of points , lines , angles, surfaces, and solids . ( See Euclid and plane geometry .)


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Word History and Origins

Origin of geometry1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English gemetri(e), from Old French geometrie, from Latin geōmetria, from Greek geōmetría; geo-, -metry

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Word History and Origins

Origin of geometry1

C14: from Latin geōmetria, from Greek, from geōmetrein to measure the land

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Example Sentences

Walking through the center of town near Dunne Park offers keen observers a hidden funfair of skewed geometry.

Everything becomes a sort of calculation against the geometry and parabolas of the IDF.

He turned his thesis into the book Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics on the new developments in differential geometry.

If you understand geometry, I think you can understand a lot in science.

I think in geometry, you can come to very accurate conclusions with just your sensibilities, if not your instincts.

Philosophy kept pace with geometry, and those who observed Nature also gloried in abstruse calculations.

In the Grammar Schools were also taught music and geometry, and these made complete the ordinary education of boyhood.

When the rest of the sentence is added, “trying to learn my geometry lesson,” the whole has to be reconstructed.

It is thought that geometry was introduced into Greece from Egypt, and astronomy and arithmetic from Phœnicia.

He saw in painting a sort of abstract geometry for which there existed hard-and-fast forms.

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