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geodesic line
noun
- the shortest line lying on a given surface and connecting two given points.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of geodesic line1
First recorded in 1885–90
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In three-dimensional space a geodesic line is by definition the path along which a light ray would propagate.
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It would, of course, be wrong to say that the orbits themselves are geodesic lines in three-dimensional space.
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Mathematicians call such lines geodesic lines, or simply geodesics.
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