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Geometrician

Geometrician \Ge*om`e*tri"cian\, n. One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

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geometrician

n. A geometer; a mathematician specializing in the study of geometry.

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geometrician

n. a mathematician specializing in geometry [syn: geometer]

Usage examples of "geometrician".

What geometrician or arithmetician could fail to take pleasure in the symmetries, correspondences and principles of order observed in visible things?

As a result of the work of geometrician John Legon, who has undertaken a detailed analysis of the site-plans and grids provided by modern Egyptologists (such as Selim Hassan, Reisner, Holscher, Ricke and Lauer), we now know that this anomalous nonconformity nevertheless incorporates its own strict symmetry: ‘while the causeway of the Third Pyramid is aligned due east-west, the causeways of the Second and Great Pyramids both have a bearing of 14 degrees—the former to the south and the latter to the north of due east.

The triangle to which geometricians give this high-sounding name is, of course, nothing more or less than half a square that has been divided from corner to corner.

Let us assume that every body is com­posed of atoms, even those bodies purely and solely extended, flat, with which Geometricians deal.