Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the geometry of geodesics.
- adj. Of or relating to geodesy.
- n. The shortest line between two points on any mathematically defined surface.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as geodetic
- n. A geodesic line.
Wiktionary
- n. mathematics the shortest line between two points on a specific surface
- adj. of or relating to geodesy
- adj. of or relating to a geodesic dome
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Math.) Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic.
- adj. (Architecture) Made of lightweight structural supporting elements connected in a manner to provide great rigidity; -- of structures.
- n. A geodetic line or curve.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or determined by geodesy
- n. (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere)
Etymologies
- From geodesy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ventura Puente and Camelinas (the southern periferico) sit the Convention Center, Planetarium, Teatro Morelos, and the Orquidario --- twin geodesic domes house an outstanding orchid collection.”
“Also, the precise mathematical form Poincaré chose had to make the Poincaré-line that joins any two points the shortest path between them called a geodesic, just as the usual line is the shortest path between points in Euclidean space.”
“Great circle path truest shortest, aka geodesic bulges towards southeast.”
“A geodesic is the shortest path between two points.”
“The equation of motion is then the so-called geodesic equation, the shortest curve in an arbitrary background, which is not usually - as in flat space, e.g. a lawn - just a straight line:”
“Gravitons are not a relativity claim, it is an attempt to make gravity into a gauge field theory like electromagnetism and nuclear forces, which use bosons to mediate interactions between particles (and there's no evidence for it) ... general relativity explains gravity as particles following a "geodesic" in the warped geometry of space-time”
“My dad sold and built geodesic domes and we lived in one from the time I was 8 to when I graduated from high school.”
“My boss just made a joke about geodesic domes buildings being the “wave of the future” last week.”
“If the satellite turned on a rocket and left its geodesic, then it would be acted on by a force, but that force would be due to the rocket.”
“Regulars have gone on at length, to me, about the various types of Barbie one may collect, geodesic dome houses, and all sort of other veins of human interest.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘geodesic’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
recompose, specifically, Dutch, abstinence, discipline, virtue, namely, opening, century, amalgamation, cup, second and 303 more...
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Buckminster Fuller-isms
This genius was something else. He was a broad-minded, futuristic thinker who added words to our lexicon. Let's add a few.
dymaxion home, dymaxion vehicle, geodesic, livingry, killingry, ephemeralized, flopahedron, operating manual ..., synergetic geometry, material determinism, radical autonomy, whole earth catal...
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New to Me
anodyne, salient, ecumenical, salubrious, invective, incendiary, colophon, stola, druthers, syllogism, geodesic, quant and 16 more...
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Bucky Fuller's projectiles
R Buckminster Fuller created and coined so many terms and ideas that it certainly warrants a list here.
As RBF said "Dare to be naive."
Bucky would probably say "buck the ...wrapability, indigs, geodesic, compound curvature, omnidirectuional ..., synergetics, tetrahelix, SSRCD numbers, wiz of wiz-dom, cosmic illions, omnitopolgy, tensegrity and 36 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
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Dain's Words
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Inspiration Collection
piece of cake, firewater, sweetbrier, artesian, artisan, plenty, figurehead, incendiary, vignette, few, minimalism, NO and 40 more...
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❀ ✿ ✺ words for nature
words dealing with nature, flowers, animals, the sea, etc.
gloaming, geodesic, aeolian, gyre, loamy, honeysuckle, musk, love-lies-bleeding, thistle, etiolated, tidal, filament and 37 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for geodesic.
super-logos as in geodesic dome Aug 29, 2008