hyperbolic geometry

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   (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

   “Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry”

   Broadernon-Euclidean geometry

   mathematics

Questions about hyperbolic geometry

What does hyperbolic geometry mean?

hyperbolic geometry means "(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".

Is hyperbolic geometry a common word?

hyperbolic geometry 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.