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hyperbolic geometry
noun
, Geometry.
- the branch of non-Euclidean geometry that replaces the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry with the postulate that two distinct lines may be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on the given line.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hyperbolic geometry1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences
Riemann discovered elliptic metrical geometry, and Lobatchewsky hyperbolic geometry.
From Project Gutenberg
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