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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English gemetry, geometrie, from Old French geometrie (modern French géométrie),[1] from Latin geōmetria, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs, “land measurer”), from γῆ (gê, “earth, land, country”) + -μετρία (-metría, “measurement”), from μέτρον (métron, “a measure”). By surface analysis, geo- + -metry. Doublet of gematria.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːˈɒm.ɪ.tɹi/, /ˈd͡ʒɒm.ɪ.tɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiˈɑ.mə.tɹi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːˈɔm.ə.tɹi/
Noun
[edit]geometry (countable and uncountable, plural geometries)
- (mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.
- 1925, René Descartes, “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, in David Eugene Smith, Marcia Latham, transl., [1637, La Géométrie], Cosimo Classics, published 2007, page 2:
- 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.
- (mathematics, often qualified in combination, countable) 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.
- 1975 [Addison-Wesley], Eugene F. Krause, Taxicab Geometry, 1986, Dover, page 64,
- Entire new geometries are also suggested by real-world cities.
- 2004, Judith Cederberg, A Course in Modern Geometries, Springer, page 1:
- Finite geometries were developed in the late nineteenth century, in part to demonstrate and test the axiomatic properties of completeness, consistency, and independence.
- 2006, Mark Wagner, The Geometries of Visual Space, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page ix:
- 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.
- 1975 [Addison-Wesley], Eugene F. Krause, Taxicab Geometry, 1986, Dover, page 64,
- (countable) The observed or specified spatial attributes of an object, etc.
- 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:
- The inset of figure 1 shows the geometry of the samples. They are 4.6 mm long and 0.4 mm wide.
- 2003, Matt Welsh, Running Linux, page 74:
- Also, certain SCSI controllers need to be told where to find drive geometry in order for Linux to recognize the layout of your drive.
- 2018 March 14, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary”, in The Guardian:
- 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.
- (algebraic geometry, countable) A mathematical object comprising representations of a space and of its spatial relationships.
Holonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 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
- geometrician
- geometrist
- geometrize
- geometrodynamics
- geometrogenesis
- geometrylike
- geometry of fear
- geometry of numbers
- geometry shader
- hyperbolic geometry
- hypergeometry
- imaginary geometry
- inversive geometry
- Kerr geometry
- Klein geometry
- macrogeometry
- metageometry
- microgeometry
- 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
- synthetic geometry
- taxicab geometry
- tropical geometry
- variable geometry
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]branch of mathematics
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type of geometry
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spatial attributes
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “ǧēmetrī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Further reading
[edit]- geometry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “geometry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “geometry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Geometry on Encyclopedia of Mathematics.
- Geometry on Wolfram MathWorld.
- Geometry on Wikibooks.
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