Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person skilled in geometry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; hence, a mathematician in general.
- noun A gager.
- noun In entomology, properly, a larva of any moth of the family Geometridæ; loosely, any larva which is destitute of ventral prolegs, and walks by alternately extending the body and contracting it in the form of a loop with the two ends drawn together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mathematician who specializes ingeometry . - noun zoology Any species of
geometrid moth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mathematician specializing in geometry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Medieval artists often portrayed Christ, the creative Word of God, as a heavenly "geometer", compass in hand, who orders the cosmos with infinite wisdom and purpose.
Archive 2008-04-13 papabear 2008
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Apollonius of Perga was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Apollonius of Perga was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Corina had done her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Joe Harris, a great algebraic geometer, who lobbied for her stay and invited her to join his team.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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For more on hyperbolic space, check out this interview with Taimina and geometer David Henderson.
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Even math-phobes have the name of that ancient Greek geometer filed away in their consciousness.
All Hail the Hypotenuse Alan Hirshfeld 2011
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Come bumble-footed ones, dust squigglers, furry ripplers, inchers and squirmers humble in gray and brown, find out our secret places, devour our hearts, measure us, geometer, with your curved teeth!
katha pollit | moth « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Instead, he was intrigued by a conjecture posed by the geometer Eugenio Calabi, who spoke of complex, higher-dimensional spaces with very special properties.
Steve Nadis: The Hidden Universe's Geometry Steve Nadis 2010
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I was captivated when I came across the work of a young geometer called John Martineau while he was studying at my School of Traditional Arts some years ago.
Prince Charles Explores 'Mysterious Unity' Of The Universe In New Book The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I was captivated when I came across the work of a young geometer called John Martineau while he was studying at my School of Traditional Arts some years ago.
Prince Charles Explores 'Mysterious Unity' Of The Universe In New Book The Huffington Post News Team 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word geometer
From the tweets:
“Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?”
--@HatianMiner
July 30, 2012