Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

imaginary geometry

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: imag-i-nary -ge-om-e-try
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

7

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Absolute geometry, an axiomatised geometry in which the parallel postulate is absent and not replaced by an alternative, and of which Euclidean geometry and some non-Euclidean geometries are subtypes.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1879, Frederick Pollock, Introduction, Part 1: Biographical, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (editors), William Kingdon Clifford, Lectures and Essays, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, page 14, He liked talking about imaginary geometry, as a matter of pure amusement, to anyone interested in it. But at the same time he attached a serious import to it."
"Claim 7. The Euclidean law of cosines holds for any infinitesimal triangle #92;triangleABC in imaginary geometry."

Etymology

Calque of Russian мни́мая геометрия (mnímaja geometrija), coined by mathematician Nicolai Lobachevsky, probably influenced by мни́мое чи́сло (mnímoje číslo, “imaginary number”), although his precise reasoning is unknown.

Usage

Uncountable

Phrases

elliptic geometry hyperbolic geometry

Frequently Paired Words

elliptic geometry hyperbolic geometry pangeometry

Synonyms

geometry with no parallel postulate

Questions

What does imaginary geometry mean?: Absolute geometry, an axiomatised geometry in which the parallel postulate is absent and not replaced by an alternative, and of which Euclidean geometry and some non-Euclidean geometries are subtypes.
Where does imaginary geometry come from?: Calque of Russian мни́мая геометрия (mnímaja geometrija), coined by mathematician Nicolai Lobachevsky, probably influenced by мни́мое чи́сло (mnímoje číslo, “imaginary number”), although his precise reasoning is unknown.

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