geometry

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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

“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

They are effectively frustrated because the geometry of the lattice prevents them from achieving the lowest energy arrangement.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The equivalence of numbers and shapes made the ancient Greeks the masters of geometry, yet it had a serious drawback.

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