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noun

Geometer n.

One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.

(Zool.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.

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Etymology of 'Geometer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Geometer" Quotes from Famous Books

... might formulate an empirical law to that effect. But a reasoner saves himself all this trouble, by seeing that it is the essence (pro hac vice) of a triangle to be the half of a parallelogram whose area is the height into the entire base. To see this he must invent additional lines; and the geometer must often draw such to get at the essential properties he may require in a figure. The essence consists in some relation of the figure to the new lines, a relation not obvious at all until they are put in. The geometer's ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... teaching concerning this subject, in which he looks upon God as the Great Architect, when he says, "Plato says that God is always geometrising." Holding, therefore, as Plato did, that God was a great Geometer, and that the aim of philosophy was the acquisition of a knowledge of the Eternal, it is natural that he should make a knowledge of Geometry imperative on those wishing to study philosophy. This was continued also by those philosophers who succeeded ...

— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein

Words linked to "Geometer" : mathematician, geometrician, Euclid