Definition of Geometric

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

Exact synonyms: Geometrical
Category relationships: Beaux Arts, Fine Arts
Similar to: Nonrepresentational
Derivative terms: Geometry

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or determined by geometry.
Exact synonyms: Geometrical
Partainyms: Geometry, Geometry
Derivative terms: Geometry, Geometry

Definition of Geometric

1. a. Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.

Definition of Geometric

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

2. Adjective. increasing or decreasing in a geometric progression. ¹

3. Adjective. Using simple shapes such as circles, triangles and lines in a decorative object. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Geometric

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geometric

geomaterials
geomatic
geomatics
geomechanical
geomechanically
geomechanics
geomedicine
geomembrane
geomembranes
geometer
geometer moth
geometer moths
geometers
geomethane
geometral
geometric (current term)
geometric isomer
geometric isomerism
geometric isomers
geometric mean
geometric mean diameter
geometric means
geometric pace
geometric progression
geometric series
geometric topologist
geometric topologists
geometrical
geometrical distortion
geometrical irregularity

Literary usage of Geometric

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

1. Non-Newtonian Calculus by Michael Grossman, Robert Katz (1972)
"5.4 geometric ARITHMETIC The arithmetic generated by the function exp will be called geometric arithmetic rather than exp-arithmetic. ..."

2. Algebra: An Elementary Text-book, for the Higher Classes of Secondary by George Chrystal (1904)
"As a matter of history, it was this idea of comparing two series of numbers, one in geometric, the other in arithmetic progression, that led to the ..."

3. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"The nine primitive geometric forms. DEFINITION. ... The following are known as the primitive geometric forms of the second grade or of two dimensions: The ..."

4. Projective Geometry by Linnaeus Wayland Dowling (1917)
"Correlation of geometric Figures.—Any combination of the elements is a ... Primitive forms, simple figures, and complete figures are thus geometric figuros. ..."

5. The Potters' Quarter by Agnes Newhall Stillwell, Jack Leonard Benson (1984)
"SUB-geometric VASES The excavator was planning to isolate for special discussion those vases which renounce figural decoration—or, perhaps better, ..."

6. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1891)
"Extended geometric Sets. 152. I desire, however, to add one or two paragraphs with regard to an extension of the ordinary theory of geometric space which is ..."

7. Statistical Averages: A Methodological Study by Franz Žižek (1913)
"The geometric mean has this property in common with the arithmetic mean, ... As a rule the geometric mean is a value which does not occur in the series of ..."

8. Lectures on the Theory of Functions of Real Variables by James Pierpont (1912)
"CHAPTER XVII geometric NOTIONS Plane Curves 562. In this chapter we propose to examine the notions of curve and surface together with other allied geometric ..."

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