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 This gentleness and this geometry were at the root of the Bethe ansatz’s power, as the Australian physicist Rodney Baxter argued in the early 1970s. Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025 Becker needed to deliver a decades-spanning vision of America in which the geometry of spaces, particularly those designed by Lázló Tóth (Adrian Brody), has an acute and often achingly poignant emotional dimension. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025 This can include facial recognition, iris scanning, voice recognition, fingerprints, hand geometry and more. Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025 Steel Nomad's regular (4K) and Light (1440p) subtests focus on APIs more commonly used for game development, like Metal and DirectX 12, in addition to Vulkan to assess gaming geometry and particle effects. PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for geometry

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“Geometry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geometry. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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