geometrize

English

Etymology

geometry +‎ -ize

Verb

geometrize (third-person singular simple present geometrizes, present participle geometrizing, simple past and past participle geometrized)

  1. (intransitive) To use or apply geometry.
    • 1780, T. Fuller, Exanthematologia, page xiv:
      I do believe with all my Heart, that Nature doth Geometrize in all her Works.
  2. (transitive) To convert to geometrical form or to consider using geometrical principals.
    • 2012 January 19, Robert E Kennedy, A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers, page 222:
      If the special theory had unified electricity and magnetism, and if the general theory had geometrized gravity, should one not try next to unify and geometrize electromagnetism and gravity?
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