geometry

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French géométrie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin geometria, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs, “land measurer”), from γῆ (gê, “earth, land, country”) + -μετρία (-metría, “measurement”), from μέτρον (métron, “a measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiˈɑmətɹi/

  • Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /dʒiːˈɒmɪtɹi/, /ˈdʒɒmɪtɹi/

Noun

geometry (countable and uncountable, plural geometries)

1. (mathematics, uncountable) the branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships
2. (mathematics, countable) a type of geometry with particular properties

   spherical geometry

3. (countable) the spatial attributes of an object, etc.
   • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary

     He was extremely highly regarded, in view of his many greatly impressive, sometimes revolutionary, contributions to the understanding of the physics and the geometry of the universe.

   • 2003, Matt Welsh, Running Linux, page 74:

     Also, certain SCSI controllers need to be told where to find drive geometry in order for Linux to recognize the layout of your drive.

Holonyms

• mathematics

Derived terms

• absolute geometry
• affine geometry
• algebraic geometry
• analytic geometry
• chronogeometry
• combinatorial geometry
• descriptive geometry
• differential geometry
• elementary geometry
• elliptic geometry
• Euclidean geometry

• finite geometry
• fractal geometry
• geometry of numbers
• geometry shader
• hyperbolic geometry
• hypergeometry
• non-Euclidean geometry
• projective geometry
• Riemannian geometry
• spherical geometry
• taxicab geometry
• tropical geometry

Related terms

• geometer
• geometrical

Translations

branch of mathematics

• Afrikaans: geometrie, meetkunde
• Albanian: gjeometri (sq) f
• Arabic: هَنْدَسَة (ar) f (handasa), عِلْم اَلْهَنْدَسَة m (ʕilm al-handasa)
• Armenian: երկրաչափություն (hy) (erkračʻapʻutʻyun)
• Assamese: জামিতি (zamiti), জ্যামিতি (zyamiti)
• Asturian: xeometría f
• Azerbaijani: həndəsə
• Belarusian: геаме́трыя f (hjeamjétryja)
• Bengali: জ্যামিতি (bn) (jêmiti)
• Breton: mentoniezh (br)
• Bulgarian: геоме́трия f (geométrija)
• Burmese: ဂျီသြမေတြီ (gyisra.me-tri)
• Catalan: geometria (ca) f
• Cebuano: sukodbutáng
• Cherokee: ᏗᏎᏍᏗ ᏓᏍᏓᏅᏅ (disesdi dasdanvnv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幾何／几何 (zh) (jǐhé), 几何 (zh) (jǐhé), 幾何學／几何学 (zh) (jǐhéxué), 几何学 (zh) (jǐhéxué)

• Czech: geometrie (cs) f
• Danish: geometri (da) c
• Dutch: geometrie (nl), meetkunde (nl) f
• Esperanto: geometrio
• Estonian: geomeetria
• Faroese: rúmlæra f, rúmfrøði f
• Finnish: geometria (fi), jomma (fi), mittausoppi (fi)
• French: géométrie (fr) f
• Galician: xeometría (gl) f
• Georgian: გეომეტრია (geomeṭria)
• German: Geometrie (de), Raumlehre
• Greek: γεωμετρία (el) f (geometría)

  Ancient: γεωμετρία f (geōmetría)

• Gujarati: ભૂમિતિ f (bhūmiti)
• Hebrew: גֵּאוֹמֶטְרְיָה (he) f (geométrya)
• Hindi: रेखा गणित (rekhā gaṇit), ज्यामिति (hi) f (jyāmiti), रेखागणित (hi) m (rekhāgṇit), भूमिति f (bhūmiti)
• Hungarian: geometria (hu), mértan (hu)
• Icelandic: rúmfræði (is) f
• Ido: geometrio (io)
• Indonesian: geometri (id), ilmu ukur
• Irish: geoiméadracht f, céimseata f
• Italian: geometria (it) f
• Japanese: 幾何学 (ja) (きかがく, kikagaku)
• Kabyle: ta nzeggit
• Khmer: រេខាគណិត (reekʰaa kʊənne’ta)
• Korean: 기하학 (ko) (gihahak) (幾何學 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: hindaze (ku)

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• Lao: ເລຂາຄະນິດ (lo) (lē khā kha nit)
• Latin: geōmetria f
• Latvian: ģeometrija (lv) f
• Limburgish: maetkónde
• Lithuanian: geometrija (lt) f
• Macedonian: геометрија f (geometrija)
• Malay: geometri
• Malayalam: ജ്യാമിതി (ml) (jyāmiti)
• Manx: towse-oaylleeaght
• Marathi: भूमिती (bhūmitī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geometri (no) m

  Nynorsk: geometri m

• Oriya: ରେଖା ଗଣିତ (or) (rekhā gaṇita)
• Persian: هندسه (fa) (hendese)
• Polish: geometria (pl)
• Portuguese: geometria (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਰੇਖਾਗਣਿਤ (rekhāgṇit)
• Quechua: pacha tupuy
• Romanian: geometrie (ro) f
• Russian: геоме́трия (ru) f (geométrija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: геометрија f

  Roman: geometrija (sh) f

• Shona: pimanyika
• Sinhalese: ජ්‍යාමිතිය (jyāmitiya)
• Slovak: geometria f
• Slovene: geometrija (sl) f
• Spanish: geometría (es)
• Sundanese: ᮆᮜ᮪ᮙᮥ ᮅᮊᮥᮁ (élmu ukur)
• Swahili: jiometri (sw)
• Swedish: geometri (sv)
• Tagalog: sukgisan, heometriya
• Tajik: ҳандаса (tg) (handasa), геометрия (tg) (geometriya)
• Tamil: வடிவவியல் (vaṭivaviyal), கேத்திர கணிதம் (kēttira kaṇitam) (rare)
• Telugu: జ్యామితి (te) (jyāmiti), రేఖాగణితం (rēkhāgaṇitaṁ)
• Thai: เรขาคณิต (th) (ray-kăa ká-nít)
• Turkish: geometri (tr)
• Ukrainian: геоме́трія (uk) f (heométrija)
• Vietnamese: hình học (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: geometreg (cy) f
• Yiddish: געאָמעטריע f (geometrye)
• Zazaki: geometri c

type of geometry

• Armenian: երկրաչափություն (hy) (erkračʻapʻutʻyun)
• Catalan: geometria (ca) f
• Czech: geometrie (cs) f
• Danish: geometri (da) c
• Finnish: -geometria (fi)
• French: géométrie (fr) f
• Georgian: გეომეტრია (geomeṭria)
• German: Geometrie (de)
• Greek: γεωμετρία (el) f (geometría)
• Hebrew: גֵּאוֹמֶטְרְיָה (he) f (geométrya)
• Hungarian: geometria (hu)
• Italian: geometria (it) f
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• Latvian: ģeometrija (lv) f
• Macedonian: геометрија f (geometrija)
• Portuguese: geometria (pt) f
• Romanian: geometrie (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: геометрија f

  Roman: geometrija (sh) f

• Spanish: geometría (es) f
• Swahili: jiometri (sw)
• Turkish: geometri (tr)

spatial attributes

• Armenian: երկրաչափություն (hy) (erkračʻapʻutʻyun)
• Catalan: geometria (ca) f
• Danish: geometri (da) c
• Georgian: გეომეტრია (geomeṭria)
• Greek: γεωμετρία (el) (geometría)
• Italian: geometria (it) f
• Macedonian: геометрија f (geometrija)
• Portuguese: geometria (pt) f
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• Romanian: geometrie (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: геометрија f

  Roman: geometrija (sh) f

• Spanish: geometría (es) f
• Swahili: jiometri (sw)
• Turkish: geometri (tr)

Further reading

• “geometry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “geometry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Wikibooks electronic book on geometry
• Mathworld article on geometry