as in shape
the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance
the geometry of Sydney's famed opera house is suggestive of some modernistic sailing ship
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David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
All the work to that point had been done using the design rules—transistor and circuit geometries—for the existing 65-nanometer node rather than a future 45-nanometer node.
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These activities connected shark tooth analysis to broader curricula, including statistics, geometry, and ecology.
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Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.
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David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
All the work to that point had been done using the design rules—transistor and circuit geometries—for the existing 65-nanometer node rather than a future 45-nanometer node.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2025
These activities connected shark tooth analysis to broader curricula, including statistics, geometry, and ecology.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Geometry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geometry. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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