synthetic geometry

American  

noun

1. elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.

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Etymology

Origin of synthetic geometry

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

His special fields of research included synthetic geometry, vector analysis, alternating current, phenomena magnetics and hysteresis, dielectrics, transients and electrochemistry.

From Time Magazine Archive

The debt which analytic geometry owes to synthetic geometry.

From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman

These were found in the anharmonic ratio, a device leading to the liberation of synthetic geometry from metrical relations, and in involution, which yielded rigorous definitions of imaginaries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

He is the author of the Cartesian system of algebraic or analytic geometry, which has been so powerful an engine of research, far easier to wield than the old synthetic geometry.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir