geometry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces

WordNet

Ge*om"e*try noun
Etymology
F. géométrie, L. geometria, fr. Gr. , fr. to measure land; , , the earth + to measure. So called because one of its earliest and most important applications was to the measurement of the earth's surface. See Geometer.
Wordforms
plural
plural Geometries
Definitions
  1. That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
  2. A treatise on this science.

Webster 1913