geometer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of geometer
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English gemeter, from Late Latin geōmeter, from Latin geōmetrēs, from Greek geōmétrēs; equivalent to geo- + -meter
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Chief geometer Jean des Garets said the shrinking could have been caused by less rain this summer.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
Norwegian geometer Axel Thue was the first to study the optimal arrangement of finitely many two-dimensional circles in 1892.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2023
These arguments, much as a geometer might consider the nature of a triangle and then prove a theorem concerning triangularity, do not appeal to experience.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Jhabvala is an artful geometer, and she skews her angles boldly.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
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.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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