Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a geometric manner; according to the principles of geometry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb According to the rules or laws of geometry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in a
geometric manner - adverb concerning
geometrics
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with respect to geometry
- adverb in a geometric fashion
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Examples
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This globalization has also worsened the conditions for new institutions to arise as the expanding number of people who must come to terms geometrically increases the cost of coming to a new agreement.
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While some reactions are linear, chain reactions can spread geometrically aka snowballing, potentially causing large and unexpected impact.
Chain reaction Clark Aldrich 2006
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It is most illustrative to look at how a cubic Bézier is constructed geometrically, which is pictured below.
doggdot.us 2009
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There are, however, some atomic structures for which this is not possible, and they are called geometrically frustrated structures.
innovations-report 2009
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Population, as Malthus said, naturally tends to grow "geometrically," or, as we would now say, exponentially.
Tragedy of the Commons (historical) Garrett James Hardin 2007
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He said the disease was increasing "geometrically" on the continent, and that at current prices a total of US250 billion would have to be invested in Africa every year merely to fight it.
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Unhindered reproduction, he said, causes the population to increase 'geometrically' ( 'exponentially', we say now), while the means of subsistence increases only arithmetically.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2008
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Spending by Republican-controlled state governments increased geometrically, as roads, hospitals, prisons, asylums for orphans and the insane, and public schools were built all over the South.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Prosecutions for sodomy declined sharply in the colonies in the eighteenth century, even as the population increased geometrically, and in the port cities during the American Revolution, little or no misspent seed was punished.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Yes, the Yardbirds got there first when it came to extended improvs or "rave ups", but, the Magoos expanded the concept geometrically.
Binky Philips: I Didn't Go To Woodstock, But I Lived There Binky Philips 2011
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