Geometer
[dʒɪ'ɒmɪtə]
Definition
(n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
(n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Geometrician.
Editor: Luke
Examples
- The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study. Plato. The Republic.
- It wo uld encourage the best geometers to seek with renewed ardor the eternal truths which, in Pliny's phrase, are latent in the majesty of theory. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Wesley