How to Use geometer in a Sentence
geometer
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And Coel works through them with the control of a pilot, a jockey, a geometer, a shrink.
—New York Times, 2020-12-10
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Simmons is nearly seven feet tall, with a muscular grace and the mind of a geometer.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2021-10-03
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Since antiquity, artists and geometers have pondered ways to tile a plane with shapes that never overlap or repeat.
—Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 2023-06-15
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This selection of geometer (left) and tiger moths (right) from the tropics are arranged according to the elevation they were found at.
—Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 2018-10-22
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About 2,200 years ago, the Greek geometer wrote a book called Tangencies about how to construct a circle that’s tangent to any three others.
—Quanta Magazine, 2023-08-10
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Norwegian geometer Axel Thue was the first to study the optimal arrangement of finitely many two-dimensional circles in 1892.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 2023-06-06
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