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HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane
Example:
Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hyperbolic geometry" is a kind of...):
non-Euclidean geometry ((mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
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