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Definition of Geometrical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or determined by geometry.

2. Adjective. Characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration. "A buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs"

Definition of Geometrical

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to geometry; geometric. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a design) Consisting of lines and simple shapes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Geometrical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Geometrical

1. Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem. Geometric is often used, as opposed to algebraic, to include processes or solutions in which the propositions or principles of geometry are made use of rather than those of algebra. Geometrical is often used in a limited or strictly technical sense, as opposed to mechanical; thus, a construction or solution is geometrical which can be made by ruler and compasses, i. E, by means of right lines and circles. Every construction or solution which requires any other curve, or such motion of a line or circle as would generate any other curve, is not geometrical, but mechanical. By another distinction, a geometrical solution is one obtained by the rules of geometry, or processes of analysis, and hence is exact; while a mechanical solution is one obtained by trial, by actual measurements, with instruments, etc, and is only approximate and empirical. Geometrical curve. Same as Algebraic curve; so called because their different points may be constructed by the operations of elementary geometry. Geometric lathe, an instrument for engraving bank notes, etc, with complicated patterns of interlacing lines; called also cycloidal engine. Geometrical pace, a measure of five feet. Geometric pen, an instrument for drawing geometric curves, in which the movements of a pen or pencil attached to a revolving arm of ajustable length may be indefinitely varied by changing the toothed wheels which give motion to the arm. Geometrical plane, one of many species of spiders, which spin a geometrical web. They mostly belong to Epeira and allied genera, as the garden spider. See Garden spider. Geometric square, a portable instrument in the form of a square frame for ascertaining distances and heights by measuring angles. Geometrical staircase, one in which the stairs are supported by the wall at one end only. Geometrical tracery, in architecture and decoration, tracery arranged in geometrical figures. Origin: L. Geometricus; Gr., cf. F. Geometrique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geometrical

geometers geomethane geometral geometric geometric isomer geometric isomerism geometric isomers geometric mean geometric mean diameter geometric means

geometric pace geometric progression geometric series geometric topologist geometric topologists geometrical (current term) geometrical distortion geometrical irregularity geometrical regularity geometrical sense

geometrically geometrician geometricians geometricity geometrics geometrid geometrid moth geometrid moths geometrids geometries

Literary usage of Geometrical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"W« may consider the brightness at distance ( proportional to In the compound image the illumination at the geometrical focus of one of the luminous lines is ..."

2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1895)
"The fundamental problem of geometrical optics relates to the modification ... From the geometrical standpoint the filament is made up of a narrow pencil of ..."

3. A Course in Mathematical Analysis by Edouard Goursat, Earle Raymond Hedrick (1904)
"In giving the above geometrical proof the motive was not wholly its historical interest, however, ... DEFINITE INTEGRALS ALLIED geometrical CONCEPTS 68. ..."

4. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1875)
"There is another abstraction which must be made before we can enter on geometrical science. We must conceive of Kind*of three kinds of extension, ..."

5. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"called the most effective ratio of direct to shearing stress, or briefly the most effective stress ratio. 402. Interpretation of the geometrical Arrangement ..."

6. The Foundations of Geometry by David Hilbert (1902)
"CRITERION FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF A geometrical CONSTRUCTION BY MEANS OF A ... Suppose we have given a problem in geometrical construction which can be ..."

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