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real projective plane

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English

Syllables
re-al pro-jec-tive -plane
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A three-dimensional vector space over the field of real numbers in which one-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “points” and two-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “lines”. Equivalently, a sphere in which pairs of antipodal points are considered as “points” and great circles are considered as “lines”.

Inflected Forms

real projective planes (plural)

Questions

What does real projective plane mean?
A three-dimensional vector space over the field of real numbers in which one-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “points” and two-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “lines”. Equivalently, a sphere in which pairs of antipodal points are considered as “points” and great circles are considered as “lines”.

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