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developable surface

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noun

Mathematics.

a surface that can be flattened onto a plane without stretching or compressing any part of it, as a circular cone.

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A regulus such that consecutive lines on it do not intersect, in this sense, is called a skew surface, or scroll; one on which they do is called a developable surface or torse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

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