Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled in geometry; a geometer in sense 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.
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- noun A
geometer ; amathematician specializing in the study ofgeometry .
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- noun a mathematician specializing in geometry
Etymologies
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Examples
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A characteristic note of his scientific speculations is his fondness for considering social phenomena from a mathematical point of view, so that he was called the geometrician of economy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Be this as it may, this character in the comedy is called the "geometrician," and does his best to make himself unbearable to those who are toiling with pickaxe and shovel.
La mare au diable. English George Sand 1840
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What they were looking at was a dazzling-and, to Bowman, eye-wrenching - exhibition of shapes and colors, as if a mad geometrician was displaying his wares.
Tin 2010
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A geometrician named Brock transformed his well-verticed cock from soft tetrahedron to isocahedron when it was as hard as a rock.
APED: "geometrician Brock" hradzka 2009
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One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre.
Les Miserables 2008
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N. [who] is a greater geometrician than I … [and whom] I esteem for his enlightenment of mind, virtue, health and strength Bass, 1960, p.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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N. [who] is a greater geometrician than I … [and whom] I esteem for his enlightenment of mind, virtue, health and strength Bass, 1960, p.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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So the geometrician, from the construction of figures, findeth out many properties thereof; and from the properties, new ways of their construction, by reasoning; to the end to be able to measure land and water; and for infinite other uses.
Leviathan 2007
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Immediately after having applied such shameful language to a man respectable compared with himself, he considers him as an irrefragable witness, because Boindin — whose unhappy temper was well known — left an ill-written and exceedingly ill-advised memorial, in which he accuses La Motte — one of the worthiest men in the world, a geometrician, and an ironmonger — with having written the infamous verses for which
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Where, in our modern nations, shall we find a natural philosopher, a geometrician, a metaphysician, or even a moralist who has spoken well on the subject of poetry?
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