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analytic geometry

The definition of analytic geometry is solving geometry problems by representing geometric figures with algebraic equations and plotting them on a coordinate graphing system.

(noun)

Coordinate geometry is an example of analytic-geometry.

See analytic geometry in Webster's New World College Dictionary

the branch of geometry in which a coordinate graphing system makes visible, using points, lines, and curves, the numerical relationships of algebraic equations

also called coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry

See analytic geometry in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The analysis of geometric structures and properties principally by algebraic operations on variables defined in terms of position coordinates.

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