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[ME. geometrien, me geometric, geometrical (je-o-met'rik, -ri-kal), a. [= F. géométrique = Sp. geométrico = Pg. It. geometrico (cf. D. G. geometrisch = Sw. Dan. geo met risk), The car gazon being taken out, and the goods freighted in tenne of our ships for London, to the end that the bigne , heighth, length, breadth, and other dimensions of so huge a ve ell might by the exact rules of geometric all obseruations be truly taken. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. ii. 198. In this [the Greek method of analysis] we have no trace of the systematic development of geometric truth, and the method was apparently regarded by the ancients themselves as imperfect. Encyc . Brit ., XV. 630. The peculiar mosaic structure of the retina is obviously the fundamental cause for the pre-eminence of the eye as a geometrical sense. G. T. Ladd , Physiol. Psychology, p. 426. 2. Bounded by straight lines and angles; forming straight lines and angles: as, geometric forms; geometrical ornament or markings on an insect. Geometrical addition, clamp, drawing. See the nouns. - Geometrical analysis, the analysis of the ancient geometers. See analysis, 3 (a). - Geometrical conics, the theory of conic sections treated without the aid of coördinates. - Geometrical effect i on, foot, mean, etc. See the nouns. - Geometrical optics, the theory of the foci of lenses and mirrors, with other purely geometrical theories connected with light. - Geometrical pace, a unit of length, equal to 5 geometrical feet.Geometrical progre ion, radius, etc. See the nouns. - Geometrical proportion, an equation between ratios. See proportion. - Geometrical spider, a spider which constructs a geometrical web. - Geometrical spider's web, a web formed of radiating lines connected by a single line, which is carried spirally from the circumference nearly to the center. The geometrical web is peculiar to certain groups of spiders, and is variously modified in the different species. - Geometrical stairs, stairs of which the steps are supported at one end only, this end being built into the wall. Geometrical tree. See tree. - Geometric construction, the representation of the conditions of an algebraic problem by geometrical lines. - Geometric curves or lines, those curves or lines in which the relation between the absci as and ordinates is expre ed by a finite algebraic equation. - Geometric Dec IMG:content-2225.png:[graphic][merged small] geometric orated style. See decorated. Geometric decoration, decoration by means of straight lines or curves, or small surfaces bounded by such lines or curves, without the suggestion of plant or animal forms or the like. Frets and meanders, zigzags, checkers, circles, and triangles which frequently interlace with one another, forming elaborate star-shaped patterns, dog-teeth, notches of different kinds, and all similar forms, whether applied to a flat surface or carved in greater or le relief, are included in geometric decoration. - Geometric elevation, locus, etc. See the nouns. Geometric style, in arch., that development of the Pointed medieval architecture of England which includes the examples just previous to the most perfect artistic achievement of the style, or perhaps even the examples of highest excellence. It succeeded the Lancet or Early English style in the early part of the thirteenth century, and is characterized by the adoption of tracery, as yet in simple geometric forms, in broader windows, in place of the plain, narrow lancets of the preceding style, together with modifications of consistent character in wall-decoration and other sculptured ornament. With the advance of the thirteenth century, the severity and geometric simplicity of line in tracery and ornament became le marked, and the style pa ed gradually into the Decorated. See cut on preceding page. geometrically (je-o-met'ri-kal-i), adv. In a geometric manner; according to the principles of geometry.- Geometrically irrational, transcendental: said of a curve. -Geometrically rational, algebraic.