geometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.əʊˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.əˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.oʊˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.əˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.əˈmet.ɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.əˈmet.ɹək/
Forms: form: more geometric
form: most geometric
Etymology: From Latin geōmetricus, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρικός (geōmetrikós), from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs).
Senses: examples: text: The architect used geometric techniques to design her home.
text: In Mathematicks he was greater / Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater : / For he, by Geometrick scale, / Could take the size of Pots of Ale ; / Resolve by Signs and Tangents streight, / If Bread or Butter wanted weight; / And wisely tell what hour o’th’ day / The Clock doth strike, by Algebra.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 6:
text: This does not mean that the French, works, composed by rational minds (de l’esprit) are totally devoid of any value or cultural significance. But Madame de Staël obviously prefers what she considers to be the imaginative workings of the German mind to the geometric and analytical penchants of the French mind.
ref: 1990, Stamos Metzidakis, “The Utopian Vision of French Criticism”, in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, volume 44, number 3, →DOI, page 195:
glosses: Of or relating to geometry.
examples: text: Bacteria exhibit geometric increase in numbers when the environment is not limiting.
text: The men around the table were by no means dissidents, but neither can they turn their countries around on their own. Of course, the vast problems in Africa cannot be solved by African policies alone. Poverty breeds poverty by geometric progression.
ref: 1990 April 21, Flora Lewis, “Tide Reaching Africa”, in The New York Times, page 23:
coordinate_terms: arithmetic
exponential
glosses: Increasing or decreasing in a geometric progression.
examples: text: The building's profile was strikingly geometric.
text: A bold geometric roof design is planned to allow natural light to flood onto the station concourse.
ref: 2022 March 23, Stefanie Foster, “Updated designs unveiled for HS2's Euston Station”, in RAIL, number 953, page 22:
glosses: Using simple shapes such as circles, triangles, and lines in a decorative object.
Synonyms: sense: of or relating to geometry
word: geometrical
sense: using simple shapes
word: geometrical
Derived terms: ageometric
arithmetic-geometric mean
arithmetico-geometric
chronogeometric
geomagic square
geometric algorithm
geometric analysis
geometric centroid
geometric congruence
geometric construction
geometric correlation
geometric distribution
geometric dual graph
geometric growth
geometric homology
geometrician
geometric invariant
geometric isomer
geometric isomerism
geometricity
geometricization
geometricize
geometric lathe
geometric mean
geometric mean index
geometric modeling
geometric multiplicity
geometric pen
geometric probability
geometric progression
geometric sequence
geometric series
geometric shape
geometric square
geometric topologist
geometric tortoise
geon
hypergeometric
isogeometric
kinogeometric
macrogeometric
metageometric
microgeometric
morphogeometric
nongeometric
protogeometric
quasigeometric
semigeometric
supergeometric
ungeometric
Related terms: geometer
geometrical
geometrically
geometry