geometer
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8.7
- noun
- /dʒiˈɑːmɪtər/
- Specialized
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geómetra
- The geometer presented his findings on the relationship between angles and side lengths.
And, and it was first developed when, you know, artists and geometers were trying to figure out how to draw in perspective.
- And, and it was first developed when, you know, artists and geometers were trying to figure out how to draw in perspective.
Examples
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And what I work on is to be a translator between pure geometers and these theoretical physicists.
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Though complicated, elliptic equations are tractable thanks to Niels Henrik Abel, Carl Jacobi, and their fellow algebraic geometers of the past century and a half.
Academic text (2005) -
As a child, he was something of a closet geometer.
Academic text (1997) -
And so I would tell the students, that's like you being alive at the time of Euclid and being a geometer, right?
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As Freycinet well knew, engineers and geometers from mid-century had come to appreciate that calculations of force could be determined geometrically, not simply arithmetically.
Academic text (2003) -
A skilled geometer can calculate the area of complex shapes with ease.
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In her role as a geometer, she explored the properties of triangles and circles.
Synonyms
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4.9
A person who studies numbers, shapes, and patterns, often as a job
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9.2
A person who studies shapes, lines, and space
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Geometer comes from Greek parts geo- 'earth' and -metron 'measure'. It originally meant an 'earth measurer' who measured land, and that's why today a geometer is someone who measures and studies shapes and space.