GEOMETRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geometric mean? 

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

1. characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration

2. of or relating to or determined by geometry

  Familiarity information: GEOMETRIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOMETRIC (adjective)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

It has been described as the continuous analog of the geometric distribution.

(Exponential Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

An enzyme that transfers functional groups to catalyze the geometric or structural rearrangement of atoms within a given molecule to form an isomer of the original molecule.

(Isomerase, NCI Thesaurus)

An arrangement of objects, facts, behaviors, or other things which have scientific, mathematical, geometric, statistical, or other meaning.

(Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

This causes an offset in position of the explosion site from the geometric center, determined by locating the center of the circular remnant.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

To draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect.

(Circumscribe, NCI Thesaurus)

Research examined whether the popular origami pattern that resembles the geometric hyperbolic paraboloid — or hypar — had the same physical characteristics as its geometric counterpart.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

They found that the signal, generated by ribonucleic acid (RNA), helps viral proteins to overcome an 'engineering problem', assembling them into in a particular geometric pattern.

(Scientists A Step Closer to Drug Treatment for Hepatitis B, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Masses and the root mean square radius or a measure of geometric size can be determined using this technique on a mega Dalton scale.

(Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measure equal to the geometric mean fluorescence intensity of a log-normal distribution of fluorescence signals.

(Median Fluorescence Intensity, NCI Thesaurus)

A point that is the center of mass of an object of uniform density or the geometric center of a planar object.

(Centroid, NCI Thesaurus)