noun🔗ShareThe shortest line between two points on a specific surface."The shortest route between my house and the school follows the geodesics of the Earth's curved surface. "mathphysicsgeologygeographyastronomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(spherical geometry) A segment of a great circle."To fly the shortest path on Earth, airplanes often follow geodesics because the Earth is a sphere, not a flat surface. "mathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA course allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that causes tangent vectors to remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a straight curve, a line that is straight)."Sentence: "Because the shortest paths on the curved surface of the Earth are geodesics, airplanes often fly routes that appear curved on a flat map." "mathphysicsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
