A geodesic is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path between two points on a surface.
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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
See also
- All pages with titles containing Geodesic
- Geodetic (disambiguation)
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