from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A person skilled in geometry.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; hence, a mathematician in general.
noun A gager.
noun In entomology, properly, a larva of any moth of the family Geometridæ; loosely, any larva which is destitute of ventral prolegs, and walks by alternately extending the body and contracting it in the form of a loop with the two ends drawn together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
noun (Zoöl.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A mathematician who specializes in geometry.
noun zoology Any species of geometridmoth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a mathematician specializing in geometry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin geōmetrēs, geometrician; see geometrid.]
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Examples
Medieval artists often portrayed Christ, the creative Word of God, as a heavenly "geometer", compass in hand, who orders the cosmos with infinite wisdom and purpose.
Corina had done her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Joe Harris, a great algebraic geometer, who lobbied for her stay and invited her to join his team.
Come bumble-footed ones, dust squigglers, furry ripplers, inchers and squirmers humble in gray and brown, find out our secret places, devour our hearts, measure us, geometer, with your curved teeth!
Instead, he was intrigued by a conjecture posed by the geometer Eugenio Calabi, who spoke of complex, higher-dimensional spaces with very special properties.
I was captivated when I came across the work of a young geometer called John Martineau while he was studying at my School of Traditional Arts some years ago.
I was captivated when I came across the work of a young geometer called John Martineau while he was studying at my School of Traditional Arts some years ago.
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From the tweets:
“Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?”
--@HatianMiner
July 30, 2012