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
In 1973 mathematician Václav Chvátal asked his colleague Victor Klee for an interesting geometry problem.
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026
Despite this, the team acknowledges that current experiments used objects with relatively simple geometry.
—Omar Kardoudi
june 13, New Atlas, 13 June 2026
An OpenAI reasoning model recently overturned a conjecture Paul Erdős posed in 1946, toppling an eighty-year assumption in combinatorial geometry by importing machinery from algebraic number theory — two fields with no obvious reason to meet.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The Syntilay x Terrell Owens collaboration — called the TO Reset recovery shoe — is generated from a scan of each customer’s foot that captures the individual’s unique geometry of width, instep, asymmetry and 3D shape.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 11 June 2026
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2026
Despite this, the team acknowledges that current experiments used objects with relatively simple geometry.
—Omar Kardoudi
june 13, New Atlas, 13 June 2026
An OpenAI reasoning model recently overturned a conjecture Paul Erdős posed in 1946, toppling an eighty-year assumption in combinatorial geometry by importing machinery from algebraic number theory — two fields with no obvious reason to meet.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The Syntilay x Terrell Owens collaboration — called the TO Reset recovery shoe — is generated from a scan of each customer’s foot that captures the individual’s unique geometry of width, instep, asymmetry and 3D shape.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 11 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for geometry
Recent Examples of Synonyms for geometry
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The Tri-Counties Community Center in Marysville is in bad shape and at risk of shutting down due to years of storm damage.—
Kayla Moeller,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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Lightweight summer texture meets a structured, work-worthy shape.—
Aemilia Madden,
Vogue,
18 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 20 Jun. 2026.
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