See Also: Geometry(medicine)
geometry(dictionary)
geometry(dictionary)
projective geometry(encyclopedia)
non-Euclidean geometry(encyclopedia)
hyperbolic geometry(encyclopedia)
geometry (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
fractal geometry(encyclopedia)
elliptic geometry(encyclopedia)
differential geometry(encyclopedia)

geometry (iou)



geometry noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French geometrie from Latin geometria from Greek, formed as GEO- + -METRY.]
The branch of mathematics that deals with the properties and relations of magnitudes (as lines, surfaces, solids) in space; a particular system describing these properties etc. ME.
hang by geometry (of clothes) hang in a stiff, angular fashion.
D. R. Hofstadter The sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees only in Euclidean geometry; it is greater in elliptic geometry. fig.: R. S. Thomas You are old now; time's geometry Upon your face.
b. The spatial arrangement of objects or constituent parts. M19.
B. Lovell The epicyclic geometry of the Ptolemaic Universe. Bicycle The geometry of the Savoy gives reasonable manoeuvrability at low speed.
The art of measuring land; surveying. LME-E17.