Geometry
[dʒɪ'ɒmɪtrɪ] or [dʒɪ'ɑmətri]
Definition
(noun.) the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces.
Editor: Patrick--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
(n.) A treatise on this science.
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Definition
n. that branch of mathematics which treats of magnitude and its relations: a text-book of geometry.—ns. Geom′eter Geometri′cian one skilled in geometry.—adjs. Geomet′ric -al.—adv. Geomet′rically.—v.i. Geom′etrise to study geometry.—n. Geom′etrist.
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Examples
- It appears, then, that the ideas which are most essential to geometry, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We have seen in an earlier chapter that geometry developed as a sci ence is becoming gradually weaned from the art of surveying. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All these, and many more useful arts, too many to be enumerated here, wholly depend upon the aforesaid sciences, namely, arithmetic and geometry. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Himself ravished with the contemplation of the idea of good, and delighting in solid geometry (Rep. Plato. The Republic.
- To this the schoolmaster replied, There is no royal road to geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- First you began with a geometry of plane surfaces? Plato. The Republic.
- From his point of view the chief good of geometry is lost unless we can through it withdraw the mind from the particular and the material. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One of them (Archytas, 428-347 B.. a friend o f Plato) was the first to apply geometry to mechanics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then nothing should be more sternly laid down than that the inhabitants of your fair city should by all means learn geometry. Plato. The Republic.
- Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For the Egyptians, geometry was concerned w ith surfaces and dimensions, with areas and cubical contents; for the Greek, with his powers of abstraction, it became a study of line and angle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He learned geometry, and drawing, painting, and modeling. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient. Plato. The Republic.
- As we have already se en, considerable knowledge of geometry is apparent in Babylonian designs and constructions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Attai n a certitude equal to that of arithmetic and geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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