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单词 geometrist
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geometristn.

Brit. /dʒɪˈɒmᵻtrɪst/, /ˈdʒɒmᵻtrɪst/, U.S. /dʒiˈɑmətrəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: geometry n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < geometry n. + -ist suffix. Compare earlier geometer n., geometrer n., geometrian n., geometrician n.
= geometer n. 1.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor
geometrian?c1400
geometrician?1537
surveyor1551
land-meter1582
land-measurer1632
measurer1636
geodesian1650
geometrist1772
geometer1773
arpenteur1789
land-surveyor1792
fieldman1838
1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical 12 Let our Bottles, like globes, have elliptical sweep; Geometrists mind what I say.
1818 London Med. Repository 10 515 The investigations of the chemist..now bid fair almost to rival in precision the pursuits of the geometrist.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 166 Every observing onlooker, seeing the compasses in the hand, pronounces it to be the portrait of an architect or a geometrist.
1945 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 58 217 Throughout our mature years we live in a geographer's, a geometer's, and an astronomer's world.
1968 Baseball Digest Sept. 58/2 A diamond, any geometrist will tell you, has two acute and two obtuse angles.
2006 Craft 1 46/1 She goes on to explain what geometrists already know: while a sphere has constant positive curvature, a hyperbolic plane is the opposite of a sphere, having constant negative curvature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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