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geometrize

geometrize verb: to use or apply geometry.

Verb

geometrize (third-person singular simple present geometrizes, present participle geometrizing, simple past and past participle geometrized)

  1. (intransitive) To use or apply geometry.
    • I do believe with all my Heart, that Nature doth Geometrize in all her Works.1780, T. Fuller, Exanthematologia, page xiv
  2. (transitive) To convert to geometrical form or to consider using geometrical principals.
    • If the special theory had unified electricity and magnetism, and if the general theory had geometrized gravity, should one not try next to unify and geometrize electromagnetism and gravity?2012 January 19, Robert E Kennedy, A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers, page 222

Forms of geometrize

third-person singular presentgeometrizes
present participlegeometrizing
past participlegeometrized
pastgeometrized

Origin of geometrize

From geometry + -ize.

Words formed from geometrize

Questions about geometrize

What does geometrize mean?
Geometrize means to use or apply geometry.
What part of speech is geometrize?
Geometrize is a verb.
What is the past tense of geometrize?
The past tense of geometrize is geometrized.

Words near geometrize in the dictionary

  1. geometrist
  2. geometrists
  3. geometrizable
  4. geometrization
  5. geometrizations
  6. geometrize
  7. geometrized
  8. geometrizes
  9. geometrizing
  10. geometrodynamic
  11. geometrodynamical

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