Usually means: Shortest path between two points.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word great circle:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. great circle: Merriam-Webster
  2. great circle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. great circle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. great circle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. great circle: Vocabulary.com
  6. great circle: Wiktionary
  7. great circle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. great circle: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. great circle: Dictionary.com
  10. Great Circle, Great circle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. great circle: Rhymezone
  12. great circle: FreeDictionary.org
  13. great circle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. great circle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. great circle: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Great Circle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. great circle: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. GREAT CIRCLE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Great Circle: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See great_circles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (great circle)

noun:  (geometry) A circle defined as the intersection of the surface of a sphere and a plane which passes through the centre of the sphere.
noun:  A segment of such circle representing the shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere.

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