geometry : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the geometry of affine transformations
  

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• noun the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
  analytical geometry; analytic geometry.
  

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• . See under Geometry.

Webster 1913

• noun the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
  analytical geometry; analytic geometry.
  

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• that branch of mathematical analysis which has for its object the analytical investigation of the relations and properties of geometrical magnitudes.

Webster 1913

• noun the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
  analytical geometry; analytic geometry.
  

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• noun the geometry of properties that remain invariant under projection
  descriptive geometry.
  

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• that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes.
• that part of geometry which treats of the graphic solution of all problems involving three dimensions.

Webster 1913

• noun (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms
  Euclidean geometry; elementary geometry.
  

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• that part of geometry which treats of the simple properties of straight lines, circles, plane surface, solids bounded by plane surfaces, the sphere, the cylinder, and the right cone.

Webster 1913

• noun (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle
  elliptic geometry.
  
  • Bernhard Riemann pioneered elliptic geometry

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• noun (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms
  Euclidean geometry; elementary geometry.
  

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• noun (mathematics) the geometry of fractals
  
  • Benoit Mandelbrot pioneered fractal geometry

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• noun someone who teaches geometry
  

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• that pert of geometry which treats of those properties of straight lines, circles, etc., which are less simple in their relations, and of curves and surfaces of the second and higher degrees.

Webster 1913

• noun (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane
  
  • Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry

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• noun (mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's
  
  • non-Euclidean geometries discard or replace one or more of the Euclidean axioms

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• noun (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms
  Euclidean geometry; elementary geometry.
  

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• noun the geometry of 2-dimensional figures
  

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• that part of geometry which treats of the relations and properties of plane figures.

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• noun the geometry of properties that remain invariant under projection
  descriptive geometry.
  

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• noun (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle
  elliptic geometry.
  
  • Bernhard Riemann pioneered elliptic geometry

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• noun the geometry of 3-dimensional space
  

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• noun (mathematics) the geometry of figures on the surface of a sphere
  

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• that branch of geometry which treats of spherical magnitudes; the doctrine of the sphere, especially of the circles described on its surface.

Webster 1913

• that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.

Webster 1913