Geodesic (disambiguation)

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A geodesic is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path between two points on a surface.

Geodesic may also refer to:

  • Geodesic (general relativity), generalization of the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime
  • An adjective meaning "related to geodesy", the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding Earth's geometric shape
  • Geodesic dome, a hemispherical lattice-shell structure made from triangles, the shape of which is called a geodesic polyhedron

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