Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To study geometry.
- intransitive verb To apply the methods of geometry.
- intransitive verb To present in geometric form.
- intransitive verb To bring into conformance with the laws and principles of geometry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form geometrically or according to geometrical principles.
- To solve geometrical problems; speculate geometrically; practise geometry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To study or use
geometry - verb transitive To convert to
geometrical form
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Examples
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The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye, is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize, become tender or sublime with expression.
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Not only does nature everywhere geometrize, but she does so in a particular way, in which we discover dimensional sequences.
Four-Dimensional Vistas Claude Fayette Bragdon 1906
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The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye, is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize, become tender or sublime with expression.
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The science of no man can be characteristic, no man can geometrize or chemically analyze after a manner peculiar to himself.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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