geodesic

Other forms of geodesic

plural

geodesics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about geodesic

What does geodesic mean?

geodesic means "(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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in geodesic?

geodesic has 4 syllables: ge-o-des-ic. The stress falls on "des". In IPA it is /ˌdʒiəˈdɛsɪk/.

What is another word for geodesic?

Close synonyms include geodesic line, geodetic, geodesical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is geodesic a common word?

geodesic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.