Euclidean geometry

American  

noun

1. geometry based upon the postulates of Euclid, especially the postulate that only one line may be drawn through a given point parallel to a given line.

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Etymology

Origin of Euclidean geometry

First recorded in 1860–65

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Euclidean geometry

Wordsworth imagined that Euclidean geometry “wedded soul to soul in purest bond / Of reason, undisturbed by space or time.”

From New York Times ● May 18, 2021

Does democracy follow from the Constitution like a proof of Euclidean geometry?

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2018

Traditional, Euclidean geometry rests on the assumption that parallel lines stay at the same distance from each other forever, neither touching nor drifting apart.

From Nature ● Mar. 20, 2017

We refer to this as a flat universe, and the kind of Euclidean geometry you learned in high school applies in this type of universe.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

From them, it should be possible to derive a complete system of knowledge embracing every aspect of the natural world, just as one can deduce the whole of Euclidean geometry from five axioms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton