geodesic
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- n (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)
- a of or relating to or determined by geodesy
- His geodesic domes are popping up like mushrooms all over the surface of the globe.
- Problems are conceived of as giant geodesic domes with thousands of sides.
- He has also had an indirect boost from Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodesic dome.