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Noun: ruled surface
  1. A surface generated by a moving straight line with the result that through every point on the surface a line can be drawn lying wholly in the surface.
    "In algebraic geometry, ruled surfaces were originally defined as projective surfaces in projective space containing a straight line through any given point."

Type of: surface

Encyclopedia: Ruled surface

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