Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun elliptic_geometry

1 sense of elliptic geometry

Sense 1
elliptic geometry, Riemannian geometry -- ((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")
       => non-Euclidean geometry -- ((mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's; "non-Euclidean geometries discard or replace one or more of the Euclidean axioms")