Descriptive Geometry Definition

noun
The system of geometry that uses plane projections and perspective drawings of solid figures, usually in order to describe and analyze their properties for engineering and manufacturing purposes.
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A graphical protocol which creates three-dimensional virtual space on a two-dimensional plane.

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Attributive form of descriptive geometry.
Descriptive-geometry textbook.
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Singular:
descriptive geometry
Plural:
descriptive-geometries

Descriptive Geometry Sentence Examples

  • Towards the close of 1794, when the Ecole Polytechnique was established, he was appointed along with Monge over the department of descriptive geometry.

  • And Monge, continuing his researches, arrived at that general method of the application of geometry to the arts of construction which is now called descriptive geometry (see Geometry, Descriptive).

  • During his tenure of this chair he published two volumes of a Course of Mathematics - the first, entitled Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis and Plane Trigonometry, in 1809, and the second, Geometry of Curve Lines, in 1813; the third volume, on Descriptive Geometry and the Theory of Solids was never completed.

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