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hyperbolic geometry

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(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

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