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GEOMETRIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration

Example:

a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs

Synonyms:

geometric; geometrical

Classified under:

Adjectives

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

Synonyms:

geometric; geometrical

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The astronomers found that the size of the offset is about 10% of the remnant’s current radius, towards the upper left of the geometric center.

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