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noneuclidean geometry

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non-Euclidean geometry

–noun
geometry based upon one or more postulates that differ from those of Euclid, esp. from the postulate that only one line may be drawn through a given point parallel to a given line.

Origin:
1870–75; non- + Euclidean
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