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US
/ˌdʒiəˈdɛsɪk/
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[ UK /dʒˌiːəʊdˈɛsɪk/ ]
[ UK /dʒˌiːəʊdˈɛsɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or determined by geodesy
NOUN
- (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)
How To Use geodesic In A Sentence
- But I picked up the Geodesica omnibus from the SFBC and I am totally getting Saturn Returns when it's out. Back on Cover Art
- Great circle path truest shortest, aka geodesic bulges towards southeast. The Myth of the strategic location of the Taiwan Strait
- Returning to the University of Breslau he submitted a dissertation on geodesics of spheroids in 1862.
- The world-lines of particles in free motion under gravity are actually geodesics according to this rule.
- It possesses shortest lines, now called geodesics, which resemble ordinary straight lines.
- He knew what Greenpeace was, and the geodesic dome, and sado-masochism, and even supply-side economics.
- Those distortions guide the moving masses along straight-line geodesics, which look like the curved trajectories that physicists call orbits.
- The solarium is a large geodesic dome on top of the castle; it's like being inside a glass beehive. A King of Infinite Space
- So many blobs are simply the result of stacked geodesics, like Grimshaw's Eden project, a series of bubble-forms that remind me of what geologists call globular clusters.
- Since geodesics aren't always straight, light doesn't always travel in straight lines.
