(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)
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Examples of geodesic line
geodesic line
Who needs to stand in line outside a geodesic dome to find out what America produces?
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Line b is another geodesic which intersects a in two antipodal points.
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An object traveling along such a line has to accelerate away from the geodesic to which it is equidistant to avoid intersecting with it.
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While in Euclidean geometry a geodesic intersects its parallels in both directions in the limit to infinity, in hyperbolic geometry both directions have their own line of parallelism.
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