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Definition of Geometrize
1. v. i. To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.
Definition of Geometrize
1. Verb. (intransitive) To study or use geometry ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To convert to geometrical form ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Geometrize
1. [v -TRIZED, -TRIZING, -TRIZES]
Medical Definition of Geometrize
1. 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) Origin: Geometrized; Geometrizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geometrize
Literary usage of Geometrize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"All things were disposed, according to their nature and use, in number and measure,
by the magnificent architect ; who in the one did every where geometrize ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye, is, that an order and method
has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize, ..."
3. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré (1913)
"We have no need to, and one who never had seen either point or straight or plane
could geometrize as well as we. ..."
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