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"This metric geometrically encodes the perceived color distance -- that is, how different two colors appear to an observer."
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
Christmas often inspires visions of perfection: the geometrically precise tree, the artfully arranged mantel, the candlelit feast a flawless tableau.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Similarly, when Pabst visits the Nazi propaganda ministry, its geometrically baffling corridors remind him of “a trick he himself had used repeatedly in long tracking shots.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2025
Submersibles and submarines are shaped the way they are because spheres and cylinders are geometrically more resistant to crushing pressures.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023
The noise from the party had risen in geometrically spiraling quantities in irregular intervals since the affair had begun shortly after noon.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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