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geometry

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.

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Origin of geometry

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

Words nearby geometry

geometric ratio, geometrics, geometric series, geometrid, geometrize, geometry, geomorphic, geomorphology, geonavigation, Geonim, geophagy

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How to use geometry in a sentence

The link between geometry and number theory gave the mathematicians an opening, but they had to work hard to exploit it.
Some of the basic geometry is identical, while some major aspects have been touched up, particularly the character models and background geometry.
Here, the geometry of the target was relevant, since there was now a nonzero probability that consecutive arrows could fall within the same ring.
The geometry of these is less understood, but in the last few decades mathematicians have been able to prove that hypersurfaces always have lines in some cases.

Yet these basic bits of Lego are entities whose wave packets you can, in principle, pack into as small a region as you'd like before the very notion of continuum geometry starts, at the Planck scale, to lose meaning.
Walking through the center of town near Dunne Park offers keen observers a hidden funfair of skewed geometry.
Everything becomes a sort of calculation against the geometry and parabolas of the IDF.
He turned his thesis into the book Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics on the new developments in differential geometry.
If you understand geometry, I think you can understand a lot in science.
I think in geometry, you can come to very accurate conclusions with just your sensibilities, if not your instincts.
Philosophy kept pace with geometry, and those who observed Nature also gloried in abstruse calculations.
In the Grammar Schools were also taught music and geometry, and these made complete the ordinary education of boyhood.
When the rest of the sentence is added, "trying to learn my geometry lesson," the whole has to be reconstructed.
It is thought that geometry was introduced into Greece from Egypt, and astronomy and arithmetic from Phœnicia.
He saw in painting a sort of abstract geometry for which there existed hard-and-fast forms.

British Dictionary definitions for geometry

noun

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

any branch of geometry using a particular notation or set of assumptions analytical geometry
any branch of geometry referring to a particular set of objects solid 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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Scientific definitions for geometry

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

Cultural definitions for geometry