affine geometry
affine geometry · affine geometries
аффинная геометрия
affine Geometrie
The branch of geometry dealing with what can be deduced in Euclidean geometry when the…The branch of geometry dealing with what can be deduced in Euclidean geometry when the notions of line length and angle size are ignored.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)The branch of geometry dealing with what can be deduced in Euclidean geometry when the notions of line length and angle size are ignored.
1940 [McGraw-Hill], E. T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics, 2017 [1992], Dover, page 265, To include affine geometry, Menger (1935) imposed on lattices a reasonable axiom of parallelism.
affine Geometrie
аффи́нная геоме́трияaffínnaja geométrija
(countable)A geometry that is otherwise Euclidean but disregards lengths and angle sizes.
More definitions
- the geometry of affine transformations
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plural: affine geometries| Singular | affine geometry |
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