单词 | metrical geometry |
释义 | > as lemmasmetrical geometry metrical geometry n. Mathematics (now rare perh. obsolete) = metric geometry n. at metric n.1 and adj.1 Compounds. ΚΠ 1858 A. Cayley in Math. Papers (1889) II. 592 We are then in the region of pure descriptive geometry: we pass out of it into metrical geometry by fixing upon a conic of the figure as a standard of reference and calling it the Absolute. 1897 B. Russell Ess. Found. Geom. 149 Metrical Geometry..may be defined as the science which deals with the comparison and relations of spatial magnitudes. 1922 Jrnl. Philos. 19 396 Three fairly distinct types of geometrical system: projective geometry, descriptive geometry, and metrical geometry. < as lemmas |
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