geometer in English

noun
1
a person skilled in geometry.
Halley suggested to him that he might devote his considerable talents to the restoration of the work of the early Greek geometers , such as Euclid and Apollonius of Perga.
2
a geometrid moth or its caterpillar.
The body of geometer moths is thin and more fragile looking than in other macromoths.
noun
    geometrician

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1. polymath : architect , anatomist , sculptor , engineer , inventor , geometer , musician and painter .

2. The point is named in honor of the 19th-century German geometer Theodor Spieker.

3. Synonyms for Arithmetician include mathematician, actuary, calculator, geometer, geometrician, number cruncher, numerical analyst, statistician, theoretician and CPA

4. The weed also serves as a host plant for the larva of the Venerable Dart and Chickweed Geometer moths.

5. Apollonian Devised by or named after Apollonius of Perga, an ancient Greek geometer, celebrated for his original investigations in conic sections

6. God is not only the infinite geometer, according to Plutarch, but infinitely Arithmetizes; creation proceeds not from the word but from the number

7. Other insects that have been observed to feed on Bedstraws include aphids, the larvae of Geometer moths, plant bugs (Miridae), stinkbugs (Pentatomidae), and ebony bugs (Thyreocoridae)

8. Akrasia, the state of acting against one's better judgement; Acrasia (horse), a racing horse, 1904 Melbourne Cup winner Acrasia, a geometer moth genus; Acrasia (protists), a proposed phylum of protists A character in Edmund Spenser's …

9. Apollonius was a Greek mathematician known as 'The Great Geometer'. His works had a very great influence on the development of mathematics and his famous book Conics introduced the terms parabola, ellipse and hyperbola

10. A most appropriate introduction to the dissemination of the Elements throughout the Islamic world can be had by quoting the entry on Euclid in the Fihrist (“Index”) of the tenth-century Biobibliographer Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Nadīm: A geometer, he was the son of Naucrates, who was in turn the son of B [a]r [a]niq [e]s.