geometry

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The team also explored nonlinear optical effects by adjusting the cavity geometry so that the resonance shifted into the near-infrared range.

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

In that geometry, it becomes impossible for every magnetic moment to point opposite to all of its neighbors at the same time.

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

After writing what he knew was the wrong answer to the first geometry problem, Neel put his pencil and protractor down and rested his head on his arms.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins