Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun geodesic_line
1 sense of geodesic line
Sense 1
geodesic, geodesic line -- ((mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere))
=> line -- (a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point)