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Noun: hyperbolic geometry  ,hI-pur'bó-lik jee'ó-mi-tree
  1. (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

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