homaloidal

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English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ὁμαλός (homalós, even, level) + +‎ -oid.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

homaloidal (not comparable)

  1. (geometry) flat; even; applied to surfaces and spaces in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for homaloidal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)