geometer

A mathematician who specializes in geometry.

Noun

  1. A mathematician who specializes in geometry.
    • But this idea, which is a general postulate in all demonstrations, has been taken for granted by every algebrician and geometer. - 1999, Joseph-Marie Montmasson, Invention and the Unconscious, page 56:

    Synonyms: geometrist

  2. Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae).

Origin

From Middle English gemeter, geometer, ultimately from Late Latin geōmetrēs, from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure”).

Forms

geometers

Synonyms

geometrician geometrist

Related

geographer geologist geometric topologist geometry cartographer topographer topologist

Derived

algebraic geometer geometer moth metageometer