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geometry

[jee-om-i-tree] / dʒiˈɒm ɪ tri /


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The selection celebrates unexpected color, inventive patterns, and lush paint, disciplined by subtle geometry, but it also documents the Paris art world of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

This design ensured that any differences in optical behavior were due to the cavity geometry and not variations in the material itself.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

“But you’re stuck with your facial geometry and your fingerprint for life unless you take drastic measures like burning your fingerprints off,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The ancient pharaohs assigned surveyors to assess the damage and reset the boundary markers, and thus geometry was born.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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