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Definition of Geodesic line

1. Noun. (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geodesic Line

Literary usage of Geodesic line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The azimuth of ft geodesic line cannot be observed, so that the line does cot ... The geodesic line has always held a more important place in the science of ..."

2. Smithsonian Geographical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Robert Simpson Woodward (1906)
"Then the characteristic property of the geodesic line is sin ... This latter may be either a geodesic line or a vertical section curve, since their lengths ..."

3. The Boston Colloquium Lectures on Mathematics by Edward Burr Van Vleck, Henry Seely White, Frederick Shenstone Woods (1905)
"A geodesic line is completely and uniquely determined by any two points. 2. A geodesic surface is completely and uniquely determined by any three points not ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"geodesic line, a line so drawn upon n surface as to coincide with the position of a string ... The geodesic line is the shortest or longest line on ..."

5. The Boston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from September 2 to by Edward Burr Van Vleck, Henry Seely White, Frederick Shenstone Woods (1905)
"A geodesic line is completely and uniquely determined by any two points. 2. A geodesic surface is completely and uniquely determined by any three points not ..."

6. Colloquium Lectures by American Mathematical Society (1905)
"A geodesic line is completely and uniquely determined by any two points. 2. A geodesic surface is completely and uniquely determined by any three points not ..."

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