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Geometrize

Geometrize \Ge*om"e*trize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Geometrized; p. pr. & vb. n. Geometrizing.] To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

Nature geometrizeth, and observeth order in all things.
--Sir T. Browne.

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geometrize

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To study or use geometry 2 (context transitive English) To convert to geometrical form

Usage examples of "geometrize".

The dark smudges of the cities are revealed to be highly geometrized, with only a few patches of vegetation—themselves with highly regular boundaries—left intact.

Any widespread photosynthetic pigment, any gas grossly out of equilibrium with the rest of the atmosphere, any rendering of the surface into highly geometrized patterns, any steady constellation of lights on the night hemisphere, any non-astrophysical sources of radio emission would betoken the presence of life.

There were vast areas of the Midwest intricately geometrized with squared, rectangles, and circles by those with agricultural or urban predilections.

Are the worlds of more advanced civilizations totally geometrized, entirely rebuilt by their inhabitants?

It couldn't have been the wowo itself that ate poor Kurt -- a wowo's just a hollow of a self-everting Klein bottle geometrized in this tasty gnarly way that Kurt dreamed up.

Or tributes to that fallen leader, the to-tern aspects-the square-framed glasses precise as geometrizing instruments, the equally meticulous and fussy clothes-incorporated like the fetishes of the dead into their own gestalt.

Within him, through him, as the outward semblance of the kind passed away, I saw the swirls and curves, the straits and channels-black-lined, geometrizing abstractly inside the general outline of a large and noble figure.

Within him, through him, as the outward semblance of the kind passed away, I saw the swirls and curves, the straits and channels—black-lined, geometrizing abstractly inside the general outline of a large and noble figure.