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Noun: elliptic geometry
  1. (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle
    "Bernhard Riemann pioneered elliptic geometry";
    - Riemannian geometry

Type of: non-Euclidean geometry

Encyclopedia: Elliptic geometry

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