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English
Etymology
From non- + Euclidean.
Adjective
non-Euclidean (not comparable)
- of, or relating to non-Euclidean geometry
1928 February, H P Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.
Translations
pertaining to non-Euclidean geometry