geometrize

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verb

To use or apply geometry.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verbgeometrize (third-person singular simple present geometrizes, present participle geometrizing, simple past and past participle geometrized)

present singular third person geometrizes · participle present geometrizing · participle past geometrized · past geometrized

  1. intransitiveTo use or apply geometry.

    I do believe with all my Heart, that Nature doth Geometrize in all her Works.

    1780, T. Fuller, Exanthematologia, page xiv
  2. transitiveTo convert to geometrical form or to consider using geometrical principals.

    If the special theory had unified electricity and magnetism, and if the general theory had geometrized gravity, should one not try next to unify and geometrize electromagnetism and gravity?

    2012 January 19, Robert E Kennedy, A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers, page 222

Origin

  1. Proto-Hellenic*gaya
  2. Ancient Greekγαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
  3. Ancient Greekγῆ (gê)
  4. Ancient Greekγεω- (geō-)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*med-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-
  7. Ancient Greekμέτρον (métron)
  8. Ancient Greekγεωμετρῐ́ᾱ (geōmetrĭ́ā)
  9. Latingeōmetria
  10. Old Frenchgeometrie
  11. Middle Englishgemetry
  12. Englishgeometry
  13. Englishgeometrize

From geometry + -ize.

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APA

geometrize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geometrize

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Chicago

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