Geometric means built from regular shapes and straight lines. A geometric pattern, geometric print, strictly geometric.
In design it names patterns of circles, triangles and grids as against flowing organic ones, and Islamic art built an entire tradition on them because of restrictions on depicting living things. Geometric growth means multiplying rather than adding. Note that the Greek means earth-measuring, from surveying fields.
1adjectivegeometricBuilt from regular shapes and straight lines.
“The rug has a bold geometric pattern of triangles and squares.”
2adjectiveincreasingIncreasing by multiplication.
“The number of bacteria shows geometric growth, doubling every hour.”
geometric is a quality of regular shape.
Greek geometrikos comes from ge, earth, plus metron, measure. Geography and metre come from the same parts.
Ancient Greek
γεωμετρικός
Latin
geōmetricus
English, today
geometric
From Latin geōmetricus, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρικός, from γεωμέτρης. by surface analysis, geometer + -ic or geo- + -metric.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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