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Definition of Parabolic geometry

1. Noun. (mathematics) geometry based on Euclid's axioms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parabolic Geometry

Literary usage of Parabolic geometry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"(1) The interest of parabolic geometry centres in the fact that it includes ... We will therefore confine our investigations of parabolic geometry to space ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In the ordinary, or parabolic, geometry the centre -would be on the line at oo ... Hence translation 'in ordinary (parabolic) geometry corresponds to those ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1905)
"By taking a in the equation of the absolute sufficiently large the hyperbolic and elliptic geometries approach identity with the parabolic geometry in ..."

4. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"The first corresponds to the elliptic, the second to the hyperbolic, and the third to the parabolic geometry. The geometry in each case is determined by an ..."

5. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated by Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922)
"In the parabolic geometry that sum is constant (the same for all triangles) and is exactly two right angles, as you know; in the hyperbolic and elliptic ..."

6. The Foundations of Euclidian Geometry as Viewed from the Standpoint of by Israel Euclid Rabinovitch (1903)
"He prefers the parabolic geometry, however, on account of its presenting the simplest hypothesis in the theory of measurement. So he says in his lectures on ..."

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