geometer

[jee-om-i-ter]

noun

1. geometrician.

2. 1. Also geometer moth an adult geometrid moth.

   2. the larva of a geometrid moth; inchworm.

geometer

/ dʒɪˈɒmɪtə, dʒɪˌɒmɪˈtrɪʃən, ˌdʒiːəʊmɪ- /

noun

1. a person who is practised in or who studies geometry

Word History and Origins

Origin of geometer¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English gemeter, from Late Latin geōmeter, from Latin geōmetrēs, from Greek geōmétrēs; equivalent to geo- + -meter

Example Sentences

Chief geometer Jean des Garets said the shrinking could have been caused by less rain this summer.

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Like the ancient geometer Euclid, the neural net had somehow intuitively discerned a mathematical truth, but the logical “why” of it was far from obvious.

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“When you try to build a curved object out of flat material, there’s always a fundamental tension,” said Keenan Crane, a geometer and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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He used his stay in prison to reinvent the concept of a point at infinity, and combining it with Monge’s work, he became the first true projective geometer.

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That feeling of mystical revelation — of a shimmering, underlying order that we can apprehend if we purify our perception — might explain the mutual affinity between poets and geometers.

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