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geometry

noun as in mathematics

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The link between geometry and number theory gave the mathematicians an opening, but they had to work hard to exploit it.

Some of the basic geometry is identical, while some major aspects have been touched up, particularly the character models and background geometry.

Here, the geometry of the target was relevant, since there was now a nonzero probability that consecutive arrows could fall within the same ring.

The geometry of these is less understood, but in the last few decades mathematicians have been able to prove that hypersurfaces always have lines in some cases.

Yet these basic bits of Lego are entities whose wave packets you can, in principle, pack into as small a region as you’d like before the very notion of continuum geometry starts, at the Planck scale, to lose meaning.

Walking through the center of town near Dunne Park offers keen observers a hidden funfair of skewed geometry.

Everything becomes a sort of calculation against the geometry and parabolas of the IDF.

He turned his thesis into the book Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics on the new developments in differential geometry.

If you understand geometry, I think you can understand a lot in science.

I think in geometry, you can come to very accurate conclusions with just your sensibilities, if not your instincts.

Philosophy kept pace with geometry, and those who observed Nature also gloried in abstruse calculations.

In the Grammar Schools were also taught music and geometry, and these made complete the ordinary education of boyhood.

When the rest of the sentence is added, “trying to learn my geometry lesson,” the whole has to be reconstructed.

It is thought that geometry was introduced into Greece from Egypt, and astronomy and arithmetic from Phœnicia.

He saw in painting a sort of abstract geometry for which there existed hard-and-fast forms.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to geometry, such as: algebra, calculation, calculus, math, addition, and division.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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