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geometrical

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ge·o·met·ric  (j-mtrk) also ge·o·met·ri·cal (-r-kl)
adj.
1.
a. Of or relating to geometry and its methods and principles.
b. Increasing or decreasing in a geometric progression.
2. Using simple geometric forms such as circles and squares in design and decoration.
3. Of or relating to properties in algebraic geometry involving algebraically closed fields.

geo·metri·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.geometrical - of or relating to or determined by geometry
2.geometrical - characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; "a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs"
beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art
nonrepresentational - of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature


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That's geometrical progression - you know how that piles up.
A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one, would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent.
If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
 
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