Definitions for geometer

geometer ge·om·e·ter

Spelling: [jee-om-i-ter]
IPA: /dʒiˈɒm ɪ tər/

Geometer is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in geometer (eeegmort).

Definitions for geometer

noun

  1. geometrician.
  2. a geometrid moth or larva.

Origin of geometer

1375-1425; late Middle English gemeter Late Latin geōmeter, for Latin geōmetrēs Greek geōmétrēs, equivalent to geō- geo- + -metrēs, derivative of métron measure; see <

Examples for geometer

Trans., he was a geometer, and one who rebukes his squarer for quoting Matthew xi.

The French geometer, Legendre, gave a rigorous proof by reductio ad absurdum.

Euclid the geometer, Aratus the astronomer, Ptolemy the cosmographer, add lustre to the golden age of Alexandrian culture.

Most of the geometer caterpillars, of which we have already spoken, are well trained in the art of deception.

This turned out to be the larva of a geometer two inches long.

The bee is more, a geometer; the ant is before all remarkable as an educator.

The Euclidean geometer can take it for granted that the reader understands what a line or plane, a solid or an angle is.

Diderot refers to "the ingenious expression of an English geometer that God geometrises" (p. 294).

From a carpenter he becomes a joiner, a cabinet-maker; from a cabinet-maker, a geometer!

Aristophanes, in the Birds, introduces a geometer who announces his intention to make a square circle.

Word Value for geometer
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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