Noun: hyperbolic geometry ,hI-pur'bó-lik jee'ó-mi-tree
- (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"
Type of: non-Euclidean geometry
Encyclopedia: Hyperbolic geometry