Geonoma (jeonoma)

[NL., so called in allusion to its rapid propagation, unarmed palms, with reed-like stems, of about 100 species, common in the forests of tropical America. The leaves are entire, or bifid, or more or le pinnately cleft, the flowers are small upon a simple or forked spadix, and the small one-seeded fruit is usually black. geonomic (je-ō-nom'ik), a. [ -ic .] Pertaining to geonomy. geonomy (je-on'ō-mi), n. [ γῆ , the earth, + νόμος , a law.) The science of the physical laws relating to the earth, including geology and physical geography. tary; especially, modern synthetic geometry. - Hyper- bolic geometry, a system which a umes that space, though infinite in measurement, has a real and definite boundary, separating the points at a real distance from points at an imaginary distance.- Linear or line geom- etry, the theory of systems of rays, congruencies, and complexes. - Metric or quantitative geometry treats of the distances of points or the magnitude of angles, arcs, 6 surfaces, volumes, etc. - Modern geometry, the syn- -ism .] Same as Same as geophagy . thetic geometry which has been developed in the nine- teenth century by Carnot ("Géométrie de position," 1803), Brian chon ("Mémoire sur les lignes du second ordre, 1817), Poncelet ("Traité des propriétés projectives des figures," 1822), Möbius ("Barycentrische Calcul," 1827), Steiner ("System at is che Entwickelung," 1832), Chasles ("Géométrie supérieure," 1852), Von Staudt ("Geometrie der Lage," 1847), and others. - Organic geometry. (a) A kind of geometry invented by MacLaurin (1719), in which more complicated curves are produced from le complicated ones. Hence-(b) Higher synthetic geometry in general. - Parabolic geometry, a system which a umes (in harmony with Euclidean principles) that the locus at an infinite distance consists of two coincident planes with an imaginary circle upon them.-Plane geometry, the geometry of figures all lying in one plane. - Practical geometry. (a) Surveying. (6) The art of geometrical drawing. - Projective geometry, a method of investigating geometry by the application of the theory of projections. -Segmentary geometry, modern synthetic geometry, geophagism (je-ofa-jizm), n. [