<span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulates</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span>...
formulation in Euclid's Elements makes no mention of <span class="searchmatch">parallels</span>. <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulates</span>) (geometry) An axiom in Euclidean geometry: given...
statements that can be deduced from Euclid's first four <span class="searchmatch">postulates</span>. Then existence of <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> lines is certainly a theorem of absolute geometry, while...
parallelless <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> motion <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> palette <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> park <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> parking <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> play <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> port <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span> <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> processing <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> ruler...
-ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French postulat. <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">postulates</span>) Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally...
geometries) (geometry) The familiar geometry of the real world, based on the <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span>. absolute geometry non-Euclidean geometry mathematical system...
(geometry) Absolute geometry, an axiomatised geometry in which the <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span> is absent and not replaced by an alternative, and of which Euclidean...
central to affine geometry, in which the <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span> is replaced by Playfair's axiom, a version of the <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span> that relies on neither distance nor...
elliptical geometry spherical geometry Any system of geometry not based on the set of axioms of Euclidean geometry absolute geometry <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span>...
hyperbolic geometries) (geometry) A type of geometry that rejects the <span class="searchmatch">parallel</span> <span class="searchmatch">postulate</span>. Given a straight line L and a point p not on L, more than one straight...