geometrize

American  

[jee-om-i-trahyz] / dʒiˈɒm ɪˌtraɪz /

especially British, geometrise

verb (used without object)

geometrized, geometrizing

1. to work by geometric methods.

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verb (used with object)

geometrized, geometrizing

1. to put into geometric form.

geometrize British  

/ dʒɪˈɒmɪˌtraɪz /

verb

1. to use or apply geometric methods or principles (to)

2. (tr) to represent in geometric form

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Other Word Forms

• geometrization noun

Etymology

Origin of geometrize

First recorded in 1650–60; geometr(y) + -ize

Example Sentences

Today fewer and fewer physicists are working at unified-field theory; most are persuaded that the effort to geometrize the electromagnetic field is futile.

From Scientific American

The science of no man can be characteristic, no man can geometrize or chemically analyze after a manner peculiar to himself.

From Project Gutenberg

There is no curiosity in the Elemental kingdom, if I may so call the bodies of Air, Water, Earth, that are comparable in form to those of Minerals, Air and Water having no form at all, unless a potentiality to be form'd into Globules; and the clods and parcels of Earth are all irregular, whereas in Minerals she does begin to Geometrize, and practise, as 'twere, the first principles of Mechanicks, shaping them of plain regular figures, as triangles, squares, &c. and tetraedrons, cubes, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

What but the Spirit of God could so geometrize the wondrous architecture of the spider and the bee, or hang the hill-star's nest in the air, or sling the hammock of the tiger-moth, or curve the ramparts of the beaver's fort, and build the myriad "homes without hands" in which fish, bird, and insect make their abode?

From Project Gutenberg

Emerson says: "The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is that an order and a method has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize, become tender or sublime with expression."

From Project Gutenberg