geometric figure

collocation in English

meaningsofgeometricandfigure

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geometric
adjective
uk
/ˌdʒiː.əˈmet.rɪk/us
/ˌdʒiː.əˈmet.rɪk/
A geometric pattern or arrangement is made up of shapes such as squares, triangles, ...
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figure
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɪɡ.ər/us
/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ/
the symbol for a number or an amount expressed ...
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(Definition ofgeometricandfigurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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All this he consolidates into ageometricfigure, the stance "triangle," a visual heuristic for stance's purportedly multifaceted nature.
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The child was asked to choose which of six pictures best fits the missing piece in a largergeometricfigure.
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Forty minutes after copying a complexgeometricfigure, participants were, without warning, asked to reproduce it from memory.
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Angler appears as a green and pink, misshapengeometricfiguremade up of complex designings of fitted angles representing a being of irregular physics.
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After chanting a song of sworcery, ageometricfiguresuddenly appears.
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Topopoles can be looped several times around the local star, in ageometricfigureknown as a torus knot.
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This definition is also illustrated in secondgeometricfigure.
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The stars in the design approximate a type ofgeometricfigurecalled an astroid, a particular type of hypocycloid with four cusps.
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A triangle is the simplestgeometricfigurethat will not change shape when the lengths of the sides are fixed.
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There has been some controversy about whatgeometricfigurethis formula represents.
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Different symmetries can be expressed on the samegeometricfigurewith the faces following different uniform color patterns.
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To this end, two kinds of geometric figures are supported.
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Not only were numbers imbued with extranumeric qualities, but they were often visualised as geometric figures, combinations of which generated other figures.
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The triangle of light on the wall (too blurry to discern as ageometricfigureon the above low resolution image) was the product of the afternoon sun.
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However, the attempt to transform the auditory space into precisely drawn geometric figures (indicated by the location of the performers) is doomed to failure.
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The contestants would start by adding the sides or points of the solidgeometricfigurethat the drognas had and fail to guess the right number.
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An analogy can be made to the difference between geometric figures and the lines that they comprise.
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The non-literate village women named geometric figures as familiar objects.
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Peduncular hallucinations are typically vivid and bright visual images of sceneries, people, animals, or geometric figures.
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To study visual perception, classification, and abstraction, an investigator joined a g roup of subjects, showed them drawings of geometric figures and asked them to name the figures.
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