geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiːˈɒm.ɪ.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒm.ɪ.tɹi/
ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑ.mə.tɹi/
ipa: /d͡ʒiːˈɔm.ə.tɹi/
Forms: form: geometries
Etymology: From Middle English gemetry, geometrie, from Old French geometrie (modern French géométrie), from Latin geōmetria, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs, “geometer, land measurer”), from γῆ (gê, “earth, land, country”) + -μετρία (-metría, “measurement”), from μέτρον (métron, “a measure”). By surface analysis, geometer + -y or geo- + -metry. Doublet of gematria.
Senses: examples: text: ANY problem in geometry can easily be reduced to such terms that a knowledge of the lengths of certain straight lines is sufficient for its construction.
ref: 1925, René Descartes, “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, in David Eugene Smith, Marcia Latham, transl., [1637, La Géométrie], Cosimo Classics, published 2007, page 2:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.
examples: text: 1975 [Addison-Wesley], Eugene F. Krause, Taxicab Geometry, 1986, Dover, page 64,
Entire new geometries are also suggested by real-world cities.
text: Finite geometries were developed in the late nineteenth century, in part to demonstrate and test the axiomatic properties of completeness, consistency, and independence.
ref: 2004, Judith Cederberg, A Course in Modern Geometries, Springer, page 1:
text: Previous theorists have often tried to test whether visual space is best described by a small set of traditional geometries, such as the Euclidean geometry most of us studied in High School or the hyperbolic and spherical geometries introduced by 19ᵗʰ-century mathematicians.
ref: 2006, Mark Wagner, The Geometries of Visual Space, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page ix:
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: often qualified in combination
glosses: A mathematical system that deals with spatial relationships and that is built on a particular set of axioms; a subbranch of geometry which deals with such a system or systems.
examples: text: The inset of figure 1 shows the geometry of the samples. They are 4.6 mm long and 0.4 mm wide.
ref: 1990, M. E. Cage, D. Y. Yu, G. Marullo Reedtz, “Observation and an Explanation of Breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect”, in Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, volume 95, number 1:
text: Also, certain SCSI controllers need to be told where to find drive geometry in order for Linux to recognize the layout of your drive.
ref: 2003, Matt Welsh, Running Linux, page 74:
text: He was extremely highly regarded, in view of his many greatly impressive, sometimes revolutionary, contributions to the understanding of the physics and the geometry of the universe.
ref: 2018 March 14, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The observed or specified spatial attributes of an object, etc.
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical object comprising representations of a space and of its spatial relationships.
Derived terms: absolute geometry
affine differential geometry
affine geometry
algebraic geometry
anabelian geometry
analytical geometry
analytic geometry
arithmetic geometry
astrogeometry
birational geometry
chronogeometry
combinatorial geometry
complex geometry
computational geometry
conformal geometry
contact geometry
descriptive geometry
differential geometry
diophantine geometry
elementary geometry
elliptic geometry
Euclidean geometry
finite geometry
fractal geometry
geoband
geoboard
geometrician
geometrist
geometrize
geometrodynamics
geometrogenesis
geometrography
geometrylike
geometry of fear
geometry of numbers
geometry shader
heptageometry
hyperbolic geometry
hypergeometry
imaginary geometry
inversive geometry
Kerr geometry
Klein geometry
macrogeometry
metageometry
microgeometry
morphogeometry
nanogeometry
neurogeometry
noncommutative geometry
noneuclidean geometry
non-Euclidean geometry
ophthalmogeometry
pangeometry
plane geometry
pregeometry
projective geometry
Riemannian geometry
sacred geometry
spherical geometry
stereogeometry
supergeometry
synthetic geometry
taxicab geometry
tropical geometry
variable geometry
Related terms: gematria
geometer
geometric
geometrical
topology