HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperbolic geometry mean? 

• HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY (noun)
  The noun HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY (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

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry

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)