metageometern.
/ˌmɛtədʒɪˈɒmᵻtə/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəˌdʒiˈɑmədər/ Mathematics. Now rare.
= metageometrician n.
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1896 Amer. Math. Monthly 3 92 The Metageometers assume without proof that there are many varieties of space, differing in curvature, in the number of dimensions and in extent.
1897 B. Russell Ess. Found. Geom. 56 To urge, with the Metageometers, that non-Euclidean systems are logically self-consistent.
1931 J. J. Callahan Euclid or Einstein vii. 171 Even the metageometers can not beat it, they can only imitate it closely.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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