单词 | metageometrical |
释义 | metageometricaladj. Mathematics. Now rare. Of or relating to non-Euclidean geometry. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adjective] > branches of stereometrical1656 Apollonian1704 Euclidean1714 isoperimetrical1743 stereotomical1828 stereotomic1860 stereometric1862 graphic1865 parabolic1872 metageometrical1882 pangeometrical1882 Riemannian1889 synthetic1889 polygonometric1890 Lobachevskian1896 topological1913 1882 J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 258 ‘Space in general’ (as distinguished from ‘flat space’, in the metageometrical sense). 1905 Mind 14 460 The investigations of meta-geometricians seem to show that our Euclidean space is only a special case of a space of an indefinite number of dimensions, and that it would be theoretically possible..to calculate the spatial properties of bodies by means of any one of those meta-geometrical space-concepts. 1919 R. T. Browne Mystery of Space ix. 315 That other datum of metageometrical knowledge..postulates the ultimate convergence of parallel lines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1882 |
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