geometry

[jee-om-i-tree]

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noun, plural ge·om·e·tries.

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.

any specific system of this that operates in accordance with a specific set of assumptions: Euclidean geometry.

the study of this branch of mathematics.

a book on this study, especially a textbook.

the shape or form of a surface or solid.

a design or arrangement of objects in simple rectilinear or curvilinear form.

Origin of geometry

1300–50; Middle English < Latin geōmetria < Greek geōmetría. See geo-, -metry

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Related Words for geometry

calculation, calculus, geometry, math, algebra, division, addition, multiplication, subtraction, numbers, trigonometry

Examples from the Web for geometry

Contemporary Examples of geometry

Everything becomes a sort of calculation against the geometry and parabolas of the IDF.
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Nick Willard
May 14, 2014
I think in geometry, you can come to very accurate conclusions with just your sensibilities, if not your instincts.
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Jimmy So
November 20, 2013
So, geometry elaborates a lot on recursivity in generative grammar.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky?
Jimmy So
November 20, 2013
October 1: “Big moments in geometry class this week...we have completed our first proofs!”
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Michael Daly
October 24, 2013
The Garden of Cyrus, with its arcane explorations of botany and geometry, may as well be an alchemical treatise or a grimoire.
Halloween Read: Thomas Browne’s Eerie Premonition of His Burial
Stefan Beck
October 30, 2012

Historical Examples of geometry

Ben is thirteen, and he studies algebra, geometry, and Latin.
Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880
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I have acquired some knowledge of navigation, of astronomy, and of geometry.
Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia
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I understand, he said, that you are speaking of the province of geometry and the sister arts.
The Republic
Plato
I was too soon diverted from the abstractions of dialectic to geometry.
Theaetetus
Plato
Then if geometry compels us to view being, it concerns us; if becoming only, it does not concern us?
The Republic
Plato

British Dictionary definitions for geometry

geometry

noun

the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties, relationships, and measurement of points, lines, curves, and surfacesSee also analytical geometry, non-Euclidean geometry

any branch of geometry using a particular notation or set of assumptionsanalytical geometry
any branch of geometry referring to a particular set of objectssolid geometry

a shape, configuration, or arrangement

arts the shape of a solid or a surface

Word Origin for geometry

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

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Word Origin and History for geometry

early 14c., from Old French géométrie (12c.), from Latin geometria, from Greek geometria "measurement of earth or land; geometry," from comb. form of ge "earth, land" (see Gaia) + -metria (see -metry).

geometry in Science

geometry

[jē-ŏm′ĭ-trē]

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

geometry in Culture

geometry

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