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

1 sense of hyperbolic geometry

Sense 1
hyperbolic geometry -- ((mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane; "Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic 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")