Meanings
present singular third person geometrizes · participle present geometrizing · participle past geometrized · past geometrized
- 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 - 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
- Proto-Hellenic*gaya
- Ancient Greekγαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
- Ancient Greekγῆ (gê)
- Ancient Greekγεω- (geō-)
- Proto-Indo-European*med-
- Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-
- Ancient Greekμέτρον (métron)
- Ancient Greekγεωμετρῐ́ᾱ (geōmetrĭ́ā)
- Latingeōmetria
- Old Frenchgeometrie
- Middle Englishgemetry
- Englishgeometry
- Englishgeometrize
Cite this entry
geometrize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geometrize
“geometrize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geometrize. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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