HyperDic: hyperbolic_geometry

English > 1 sense of the expression hyperbolic geometry:
NOUNcognitionhyperbolic geometry(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
English > hyperbolic geometry: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
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"
Categorymathematics, math, mathsA science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
Broadernon-Euclidean geometry(mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's

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