Concept information
Preferred term
geodesic
Definition
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In geometry, a geodesic is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path (arc) between two points in a surface, or more generally in a Riemannian manifold. The term also has meaning in any differentiable manifold with a connection. It is a generalization of the notion of a "straight line".
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic)
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/PSR-T9Q1M343-8
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