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Part of mathematics test beneath George and myself (8)

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geometry

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'part of mathematics' is the definition.
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'test beneath george and myself' is the wordplay.
'test' becomes 'try' (synonyms).
'beneath' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue).
'george' becomes 'geo'.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'myself' becomes 'me'.
'geo'+'me'='geome'
'try' put after 'geome' is 'GEOMETRY'.

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(Other definitions for geometry that I've seen before include "Mathematics of points, lines, curves and surfaces" , "Euclid's science" , "'Mathematics of points, lines and surfaces (8)'" , "Maths dealing with lines, angles etc - Euclid was good at it" , "school subject" .)

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