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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A non-Euclidean system of geometry based on the postulate that within a plane every pair of lines intersects.
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- noun the branch of
differential geometry that studiesRiemannian manifolds
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- noun (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.]
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Riemannian + geometry
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