geometry
noun
Liam MercerNoah RobischonAriel KanterAda Poon
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Examples of geometry in a Sentence
Christin Perry, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
Beginning with the Italianate geometries of Rio de Janeiro’s Passeio Público, the country’s first municipal garden, built over a pestilential lagoon between 1779 and ’83, Brazilian parks often mirrored European ones.
—Michael Snyder Pedro Kok, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Pi is a special number — so special, in fact, that most laypeople are probably aware of it, even if only as a relic of bygone classroom lectures or geometry textbooks.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
And if the Hodge conjecture is true, that would give you incredible control of the geometry of your variety.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
But in this case, the DeepMind team got around the problem by taking geometry questions used in International Mathematics Olympiads and then synthetically generating 100 million similar, but not identical, examples.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
In a 2020 paper, Boyle, Flicker and the late Madeline Dickens showed that aperiodic tilings appear in the space-time geometry of those models.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
The Monster in the Moonlight The monster was a theoretical prediction of group theory, an area of geometry that deals with the symmetrical properties of objects.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
Katonah draws from Chinese medicine, Taoist principles, and sacred geometry, making for an inspiriting and grounding hourlong practice.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Middle English geometrie, from Anglo-French, from Latin geometria, from Greek geōmetria, from geōmetrein to measure the earth, from geō- ge- + metron measure — more at measure
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Phrases Containing geometry
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