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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The analysis of geometric structures and properties principally by algebraic operations on variables defined in terms of position coordinates.
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- noun geometry a branch of
mathematics that investigatesproperties offigures through thecoordinates of their points.
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- noun the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
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