GEODESIC meaning: Shortest path between two points

We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Geodesic:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

geodesic: Merriam-Webster
geodesic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
geodesic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
geodesic: Collins English Dictionary
geodesic: Vocabulary.com
Geodesic, geodesic: Wordnik
geodesic: Wiktionary
geodesic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
geodesic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
geodesic: Infoplease Dictionary
geodesic: Dictionary.com
geodesic: Online Etymology Dictionary
Geodesic (disambiguation), Geodesic (general relativity), Geodesic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Geodesic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
geodesic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
geodesic: Rhymezone
Geodesic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
geodesic: FreeDictionary.org
geodesic: Mnemonic Dictionary
geodesic: TheFreeDictionary.com
geodesic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Geodesic (general relativity), geodesic: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)

Geodesic: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
Geodesic: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
Geodesic: Extragalactic Astronomy
geodesic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (geodesic)

▸ noun:  (geometry) The shortest curve between two points on a specific surface.
▸ noun:  (spherical geometry) A segment of a great circle.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, sciences) A course allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that causes tangent vectors to remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a straight curve, a line that is straight).
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to geodesy.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to a geodesic dome.

Opposite:

nongeodesic, curved, non-straight, non-shortest

Phrases:

geodesic dome, geodesic domes, geodesic lines, geodesic line, null geodesic, more...

Adjectives:

null, timelike, unique, closed, like, same, shortest, incomplete, spacelike, single, radial

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silver, gray, white, black, blue, more...

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