HOMALOID

Noun

homaloid (plural homaloids)

(geometry) An element of a homaloidal system, in particular the image of a hyperplane under a Cremona transformation.

Source: Wiktionary


Hom"a*loid, Hom`a*loid"al, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Geom.)

Definition: Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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