as in shape
the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance
the geometry of Sydney's famed opera house is suggestive of some modernistic sailing ship
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Recent Examples of geometry
The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture in geometry.
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Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
The friend group quickly forms a complex web of crushes that expand the love triangle to new frontiers of geometry.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 2 June 2026
The hardware gave the sandal most of its shape from the front, with each strap fastened by a large angular buckle that mirrored Bottega Veneta’s initials while nodding to the geometry that runs through the house’s intrecciato weaving.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
In May, OpenAI solved the unit distance problem — one of Erdős’s most famous open questions in combinatorial geometry, unsolved since 1946.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
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Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
The friend group quickly forms a complex web of crushes that expand the love triangle to new frontiers of geometry.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 2 June 2026
The hardware gave the sandal most of its shape from the front, with each strap fastened by a large angular buckle that mirrored Bottega Veneta’s initials while nodding to the geometry that runs through the house’s intrecciato weaving.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
In May, OpenAI solved the unit distance problem — one of Erdős’s most famous open questions in combinatorial geometry, unsolved since 1946.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for geometry
Noun
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Every second, the radar can beam out 1,800 short-pulse radio waves in a massive cone shape.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Mostly forgotten today is a literary subgenre that sprang up in the nineteenth century in order to give fictional shape to anxieties about the possibility of Britain’s invasion and defeat by its European neighbors.—
Ivan Kreilkamp,
JSTOR Daily,
10 June 2026
Noun
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There weren’t the same forms of communication as there are today.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Social rescue arrives in the form of outgoing cool girl Sonya (Molloy), who takes a shine to Coley after a chance encounter in a coffee shop, and invites her to join her clique.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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“Geometry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geometry. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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