"geometric pen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1797, Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 116:",
          "text": "But it may be proper to take some notice of the geometric pen, as it is not so well known , nor the principles on which it depends so obvious .",
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          "ref": "1829, Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette:",
          "text": "The geometric pen and geometric chuck, in point of mechanical contrivance, are necessarily as different as two instruments, giving to a certain extend similar results, can possibly be; and they act upon diametrically opposite principles;",
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          "ref": "1994 January 25, Charles Petzold, “Extended Pen Creation Under Windows NT”, in PC Magazine, volume 13, number 2, page 291:",
          "text": "The classic example of using geometric and cosmetic pens is in architectural drawing: You'd use a geometric pen for drawing the walls of the building. If you then zoom in on the drawing using a transform, the walls will appear wider, as they should.",
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          "ref": "2001, Feng Yuan, Windows Graphics Programming: Win32 GDI and DirectDraw, page 468:",
          "text": "To be more specific, a geometric pen has a scalable width, different styles, end caps, and joins.",
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        "A configurable drawing tool for creating lines that has a width specified in logical units, as opposed to device units (pixels), and therefore scales when the resulting image is zoomed in or out."
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        "(computer graphics) A configurable drawing tool for creating lines that has a width specified in logical units, as opposed to device units (pixels), and therefore scales when the resulting image is zoomed in or out."
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