non-Euclidean

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English

Etymology

non- +‎ Euclidean

Adjective

non-Euclidean (not comparable)

of, or relating to non-Euclidean geometry
- 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
  He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

Translations

pertaining to non-Euclidean geometry

Finnish: epäeuklidinen
French: non-euclidien (fr)
German: nichteuklidisch
Hungarian: nemeuklideszi
Icelandic: óevklíðskur m
Romanian: neeuclidian

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