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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane;
- Example: "Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hyperbolic geometry
    n 1: (mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the
         parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through
         any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do
         not intersect a given line in the plane; "Karl Gauss
         pioneered hyperbolic geometry"