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- noun the use of
geometrical concepts andtechniques in a differentfield ofstudy - noun mathematics the description of a
space as ageometry
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In the decade or so following the appearance of the general theory of relativity, there was much talk of a "geometrization" of physics
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006
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Einstein's so-called "geometrization" of gravitational force in 1915 gave the geometrization program its first, partial, realization as well as its subsequent impetus.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006
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Finally, within a few years of its completion in 1915, attempts were made to extend general relativity's "geometrization" of gravitation to non-gravitational fields.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006
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"geometrization" of physics, the possibility of finding a unifying representation of all of known physics within a single geometrical theory of the spacetime continuum.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006
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Characteristic of her work from the beginning of the 1920s is geometrization and rhythmization of composition, which stressed the expressive aspects of her painting.
Mela Muter. 2009
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The sublime, in Kant, appears to correspond to a vision of that which always escapes the architectonic, geometrization, and so forth, while appearing to be available to them.
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This geometrization of time, however, was crucial for the development of
RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968
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No doubt, the geometrization of time also owed something to the revival of interest in Euclid in the
TECHNOLOGY D. S. L. CARDWELL 1968
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So, too, did the geometrization of space which helped artists to invent new techniques of painting pictures as “true to nature” and not as symbolic representations.
TECHNOLOGY D. S. L. CARDWELL 1968
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Whether the path to unification will be via the geometrization of physics is a moot point since one cannot define the boundaries of geometry.
RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968
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