geometers 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. (27) This static conception of energeiai, ' Actualities,' is meant to do what the opseis of the geometers do
2. Not enough was known about some of the technical issues: the geometers worked by a mixture of inspired guesswork and close familiarity with examples.
3. So much of the ``recent geometry of the triangle'' is connected with the properties of ``Antiparallels,'' that it is a matter of some interest to geometers to ascertain when they came to be recognized as worthy of a distinctive name, and when the name now in use was first applied