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Affine geometry

Noun
Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.NounThe branch of geometry dealing with what can be deduced in Euclidean geometry when the notions of line length and angle size are ignored.
"As an alternative to the axiomatic approach, affine geometry can be studied via the properties of affine transformations, which do not, in general, preserve distances or angles, but do preserve alignment of points and parallelism of lines.; The notion of parallelism remains central to affine geometry, in which the parallel postulate is replaced by Playfair's axiom, a version of the postulate that relies on neither distance nor angle size."
2.NounA geometry that is otherwise Euclidean but disregards lengths and angle sizes.

Synonyms

affine transformationfinite geometryaffine differential geometryabsolute geometryimaginary geometryaffinitygeometryequiaffinityaffine groupanalytic geometryarithmetic geometryaffine space
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