| NOUN | cognition | non-Euclidean geometry | (mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's |
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| Meaning | (mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's. | |
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| Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
| Narrower | elliptic geometry, Riemannian geometry | (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle |
| hyperbolic 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 | |
| Broader | geometry | The pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces |
| Spanish | geometría no-euclideana | |
| Catalan | geometria no euclidiana | |
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