geometer

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  1. One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; hence, a mathematician in general. All who are ever so little of geometers will remember the time when their notions of an angle, as a magnitude, were as vague as, perhaps more so than, those of a moral quality. Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 10. I have reëxamined the memoirs of the great geometers. B. Peirce, Analytic Mechanics, Pref.
  2. A gager. Davies. I quatridge give to the geometer Most duly; And he will see, and yet be blind. Robin Conscience, 1683 (Harl. Misc., I. 52).
  3. In entomology, properly, a larva of any moth of the family Geometridæ; loosely, any larva which is destitute of ventral prolegs, and walks by alternately extending the body and contracting it in the form of a loop with the two ends drawn together. These larvæ are also called measuring-worms, span-worms, loop-worms, loopers, etc. The term geometer is also applied to the adult of geometrid moths. See cuts under Cidaria and Haplodes.
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  • It appears that an eighteenth-century Jesuit geometer was right. —  Omni: January 1994
  • From the journal of the Polytechnic School containing such investigations as those of M. Poisson on Elimination, I imagined that all the pupils were as much advanced as this geometer, and that it would be necessary to rise to this height to succeed. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
  • Bailly followed the advice of the illustrious geometer, and chose as the subject of his studies, the eloges proposed by several academies, though principally by the French Academy. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
  • He has an insurmountable antipathy towards men, who have in the face of the world gained the honourable titles of historian, geometer, mechanician, astronomer, physician, chemist, or geologist, ;c.... His desire, his will, is to speak on every thing. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
  • He also knew that the great geometer, hoping to be still more retired in a cottage on the banks of the Seine, and out of the town, was going to dispose of his house in Melun. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
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  1. = French géomètre = Spanish geómetra = Portuguese Italian geometra = German geometer, from L. geometres, Late Latin also geometra, from Greek γεωμέτρης, a land-measurer, geometer, from γῆ, the earth, land, + μέτρον, a measure. In earlier form geometrian.
 

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