Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for geometry. Search instead for geometers.
Definitions

geometry

[jee-om-i-tree] / dʒiˈɒm ɪ tri /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Cylinders, donuts, Mobius strips, and Klein bottles can all illustrate how spaces with locally flat geometry can have very different overall structures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

“The geometry within the geometry is a fascinating infinite problem.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In recent months, the AI companies have flaunted the capabilities of their models by trumpeting advances in combinatorial geometry and algebraic number theory, turning math into an unlikely form of advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

By studying how the fabric's geometry and material properties influenced this snap-through behavior, the team determined the physical conditions that allow knitted textiles to become multistable.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Anyone who has taken geometry in high school has seen them: they are the sets of numbers in parentheses that represent a point in space.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“We print very complicated geometries that could withstand pressure and temperature,” Mr. Spagnoletti says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

It also applies to hyperbolic geometries, which are commonly used in theoretical physics and modern models of spacetime.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026

So does Helen Lundeberg, whose familiar architectural geometries in landscape paintings get an unexpected twist in three 1960s canvases inspired by extraterrestrial musings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

Today, Jones, 55, is a celebrated minimalist whose work on paper and canvas, in sculpture and sound, is scrupulously reduced to its geometries, its tones, its colors.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

Armed with garbage bags we proceeded grimly through the house, emptying shelves and cabinets and crawl spaces, discovering geometries of dust beneath objects unmoved for years.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs




Vocabulary lists containing geometry


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com