In geometry, a straight line, usually abbreviated line, is an infinitely long object with no width, depth, or curvature, an idealization of such physical...
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Until the 19th century, geometry was almost exclusively devoted to Euclidean geometry, which includes the notions of point, line, plane, distance, angle...
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In geometry, a line segment is a part of a straight line that is bounded by two distinct end points, and contains every point on the line that is between...
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postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with: For any given line R and point P not on R, in the plane containing both line R and point P there are...
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In geometry, central lines are certain special straight lines that lie in the plane of a triangle. The special property that distinguishes a straight line...
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affine geometries and Euclidean geometry is a special instance of this type of geometry. In some other geometries, such as hyperbolic geometry, lines...
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Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements...
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non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those that specify Euclidean geometry. As Euclidean geometry lies at the...
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elliptic geometry. In elliptic geometry, two lines perpendicular to a given line must intersect. In fact, all perpendiculars to a given line intersect...
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Look up Line, line, or líne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Line most often refers to: Line (geometry), object that has zero thickness and curvature...
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independent of any metric, affine geometry is often considered as the study of parallel lines. Therefore, Playfair's axiom (Given a line L and a point P not on L...
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projective geometry may be thought of as an extension of Euclidean geometry in which the "direction" of each line is subsumed within the line as an extra...
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In geometry, a point is an abstract idealization of an exact position, without size, in physical space, or its generalization to other kinds of mathematical...
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Spherical geometry or spherics (from Ancient Greek σφαιρικά) is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere or the n-dimensional surface of...
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of geometry a line without endpoints continues indefinitely in the positive and negative directions. A line with one endpoint as a ray, and a line with...
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In geometry, a half-space is either of the two parts into which a plane divides the three-dimensional Euclidean space. If the space is two-dimensional...
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Tangent (redirect from Tangent (geometry))
In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at...
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In geometry, inversive geometry is the study of inversion, a transformation of the Euclidean plane that maps circles or lines to other circles or lines...
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In mathematics, analytic geometry, also known as coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system. This contrasts...
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Absolute geometry is a geometry based on an axiom system for Euclidean geometry without the parallel postulate or any of its alternatives. Traditionally...
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Absolute geometry Affine geometry Algebraic geometry Analytic geometry Birational geometry Complex geometry Computational geometry Conformal geometry Constructive...
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Taxicab geometry or Manhattan geometry is geometry where the familiar Euclidean distance is ignored, and the distance between two points is instead defined...
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Half-line may refer to: Half-line (geometry), half of a line Alliterative verse#Metrical form, half of a line of poetry This disambiguation page lists...
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Concurrent lines (redirect from Concurrent (geometry))
In geometry, lines in a plane or higher-dimensional space are concurrent if they intersect at a single point. The set of all lines through a point is called...
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In geometry, line coordinates are used to specify the position of a line just as point coordinates (or simply coordinates) are used to specify the position...
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The line of sight, also known as visual axis or sightline (also sight line), is an imaginary line between a viewer/observer/spectator's eye(s) and a subject...
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Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical...
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Epipolar geometry is the geometry of stereo vision. When two cameras view a 3D scene from two distinct positions, there are a number of geometric relations...
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Zigzag (category Line (geometry))
parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular. In geometry, this pattern is described as a skew apeirogon. From the point of view...
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In geometry, a transversal is a line that passes through two lines in the same plane at two distinct points. Transversals play a role in establishing...
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