GEOMETRICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geometrical mean? 

• GEOMETRICAL (adjective)
  The adjective GEOMETRICAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or determined by geometry

2. characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration

  Familiarity information: GEOMETRICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOMETRICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or determined by geometry

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

geometric; geometrical

Pertainym:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)

Derivation:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration

Synonyms:

geometric; geometrical

Context example:

a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs

Similar:

nonrepresentational (of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature)

Domain category:

beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)

Derivation:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)

 Context examples 

A measure of the degree of geometrical symmetry in the structure of the nanotube.

(Nanotube Chirality, NCI Thesaurus)

It was scrawled over with geometrical diagrams and calculations of some sort.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A surgical procedure in which the skin is cut in a geometrical fashion resembling an ellipse.

(Elliptical Skin Excision, NCI Thesaurus)

A geometrical concept defined to select appropriate beam arrangements, taking into consideration the net effect of all possible geometrical variations, in order to ensure that the prescribed dose is actually absorbed in the clinical target volume.

(Planning Target Volume, NCI Thesaurus)

If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)