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Definition of geometer in English: geometernoun dʒɪˈɒmɪtədʒiˈɑmədər 1A person skilled in geometry. 几何学家 Example sentencesExamples - He formed his own group of young geometers and together they wrote teaching texts, as well as the 4 volumes of a differential geometry text, later translated in German and French.
- He was one of the most penetrating geometers of our age: his discoveries in geometry place him in the first rank among the successors of Chasles and Poncelet.
- Halley suggested to him that he might devote his considerable talents to the restoration of the work of the early Greek geometers, such as Euclid and Apollonius of Perga.
- The issue of how to help students get started learning algebraic geometry is a question that almost every practicing algebraic geometer would answer differently.
- Our greatest debt to Lefschetz lies in the fact that he showed us that a study of topology was essential for all algebraic geometers.
2Entomology
A geometrid moth or its caterpillar. 〔昆〕尺蛾，尺蠖 Example sentencesExamples - Most of the geometer moths captured were in floral lure traps, while both species of Plusiinae were trapped exclusively in floral lure traps.
- The body of geometer moths is thin and more fragile looking than in other macromoths.
- Little is known of the life history of the larvae of geometer moths.
- The larva of geometer moths, the familiar inchworms, feed on mulberry leaves.
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin geometra, based on Greek geōmetrēs, from gē 'earth' + metrēs 'measurer'. Rhymesaccelerometer, anemometer, barometer, gasometer, manometer, micrometer, milometer, olfactometer, optometer, pedometer, photometer, pyrometer, speedometer, swingometer, tachometer, thermometer Definition of geometer in US English: geometernoundʒiˈɑmədərjēˈämədər 1A person skilled in geometry. 几何学家 Example sentencesExamples - Halley suggested to him that he might devote his considerable talents to the restoration of the work of the early Greek geometers, such as Euclid and Apollonius of Perga.
- He was one of the most penetrating geometers of our age: his discoveries in geometry place him in the first rank among the successors of Chasles and Poncelet.
- He formed his own group of young geometers and together they wrote teaching texts, as well as the 4 volumes of a differential geometry text, later translated in German and French.
- The issue of how to help students get started learning algebraic geometry is a question that almost every practicing algebraic geometer would answer differently.
- Our greatest debt to Lefschetz lies in the fact that he showed us that a study of topology was essential for all algebraic geometers.
2Entomology
A geometrid moth or its caterpillar. 〔昆〕尺蛾，尺蠖 Example sentencesExamples - Little is known of the life history of the larvae of geometer moths.
- The body of geometer moths is thin and more fragile looking than in other macromoths.
- Most of the geometer moths captured were in floral lure traps, while both species of Plusiinae were trapped exclusively in floral lure traps.
- The larva of geometer moths, the familiar inchworms, feed on mulberry leaves.
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin geometra, based on Greek geōmetrēs, from gē ‘earth’ + metrēs ‘measurer’. |