= stereometric, adj.

Of Apollonius of Perga, a famous Greek geometer and investigator of conic sections. Frequently in Apollonian parabola.

Of or pertaining to Euclid; that is according to the principles of Euclid.

Relating to or connected with isoperimetry. isoperimetrical problems n. see quot. 1865.

= stereotomic adj.

relating to stereotomy.

Pertaining to stereometry or solid geometry; relating to or existing in three dimensions of space.

Of a geometrical proposition, or a branch of geometry: Concerned with position and form, not with measurement. Opposed to metric.

Astronomy. Of space: Euclidean. Now chiefly in parabolic space n. at compounds. rare.

Of or relating to non-Euclidean geometry.

Developed by or associated with Riemann; spec. designating a differential non-Euclidean geometry based on the postulate that in a plane every pair…

Mathematics. Applied to ordinary (as distinct from analytical, i.e. algebraic) geometry.

Of, pertaining to, or designating a kind of non-Euclidean geometry (also called hyperbolic geometry) postulated by Lobachevsky in 1826, in which…

Mathematics. Of or pertaining to topology; such as is dealt with by topology (sense 3); topological invariant, something invariant under a…