Crossword clues for geometer
geometer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geometer \Ge*om"e*ter\, n. [F. g['e]om[`e]tre, L. geometres, geometra, fr. Gr. gewme`trhs, fr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + me`tron measure. See Meter measure.]
One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
--I. Watts.(Zo["o]l.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Latin geometres, from Greek geometres "land-measurer" (see geometry).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mathematician who specializes in geometry. 2 (context zoology English) Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae).
WordNet
n. a mathematician specializing in geometry [syn: geometrician]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "geometer".
The geometer emanates from the causal field of creation and begins to assume geometric proportions, expressed as physical energy and as dictated inherently by the original geometer.
Extending from the geometer, or warp of nothingness, into the geometric field-to-be.
The projections from each individual geometer were easily malleable by the receiving medium.
He left his partners at the geometer gate, bursting through to the other side with brilliant streamers of an erotic pyramid trailing behind, then swinging in a sharp arc into the geometer barrel of Rauhl Bey Singh.
The geometer chuckled, pushed the money back, and picked up the little statue.
What would the good rabbi say if he saw the highly rational geometer walking into the shop of an astrologer?
And however you calculate it, O great geometer, Cancer begins at midnight tonight, and announces the first day of the summer solstice.
The geometer brings a very strange guest, who covers his body with a long black veil.
Leibnitz will show you that the architecture of the Louvre is less learned than that of a snail: the eternal geometer has unrolled his transcendent spirals on the shell of the mollusc that you, like the vulgar profane, know only seasoned with spinach and Dutch cheese.
Poet will yield up his stylus only when the Geometer can explain how Life can at once be a point and a line.
The Alexandrine geometers substituted a conception of rigid coordinates which has dominated all scientific thinking until our own day.
At the onset of the recitation Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves.
Now, though, he understood that geometers and word-wrights alike were nothing more than degraded and by-passed off-shoots of the South Asian weapons industry.
Hipparchus seems to have taken as his starting point a work on eccentrics and equants by the Greek geometer, Apollonius of Perga (c.
A geometer on a moving canal-boat who tries to measure the speed of a flying bird will get a different number from a geometer on the shore.