Geography vs Geometry - What's the difference?
geography | geometry |
The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.
The physical structure of a particular region; terrain.
* 1973 , Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
(mathematics, uncountable) the branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships
(mathematics, countable) a type of geometry with particular properties
(countable) the spatial attributes of an object, etc.
As nouns the difference between geography and geometry
is that geography is the study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the earth while geometry is (mathematics|uncountable) the branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.geography
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(wikipedia geography) (wikiversity)- The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.
Derived terms
* biogeography * geographer * geographic * geographical * phytogeography * zoogeographySee also
* (wikipedia)geometry
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(wikipedia geometry)Noun
- spherical geometry
Holonyms
* mathematicsDerived terms
* absolute geometry * affine geometry * algebraic geometry * analytic geometry * chronogeometry * combinatorial geometry * descriptive geometry * differential geometry * elementary geometry * elliptic geometry * Euclidean geometry * finite geometry * fractal geometry * geometry of numbers * hyperbolic geometry * hypergeometry * non-Euclidean geometry * projective geometry * Riemannian geometry * spherical geometry * taxicab geometry * tropical geometryExternal links
* * *Wikibooks electronic book on geometry*
Mathworld article on geometry
