synthetic geometry

noun

1. elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of synthetic geometry¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Synthetic geometry, characterized by its fruitfulness and beauty, attracted most attention, and it so happened that its originally weak logical foundations became replaced by a more substantial set of axioms.

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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.

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

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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.

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The debt which analytic geometry owes to synthetic geometry.

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