elliptic geometry

British  

noun

1. another name for Riemannian geometry

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Example Sentences

A surface with no holes, like a beach ball, naturally admits spherical or elliptic geometry.

From Scientific American

The theory of parallels as it exists in hyperbolic space has no application in elliptic geometry.

From Project Gutenberg

But another property of Euclidean parallel lines holds in elliptic geometry, and by the use of it parallel lines are defined.

From Project Gutenberg

Many of those properties of Euclidean parallels, which do not hold for Lobatchewsky’s parallels in hyperbolic geometry, do hold for Clifford’s parallels in elliptic geometry.

From Project Gutenberg

The constant γ, which appears in the formulae both of hyperbolic and elliptic geometry, does not by its variation produce different types of geometry.

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