(mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or a an arc of a great circle on a sphere)

Usage examples of geodesic.

Hunt found him staring at a display of isochrons and distorted spacetime geodesics, and looking very thoughtful.

In place of gracile, superconducting geodesics, he found a ragged and warped tangle.

He consulted more up-to-date charts on his tapas, a small personal computer, then gave the tag-numbers and geodesics to follow.

Those geodesic forms could not have been built without prestressed concrete or something more sophisticated, not to mention the engineering mathematics.

Buckminster Fuller uses synergetic gimmicks all the time in his geodesic domes.

It was an insanely complicated problem, because he had to take into account a quantum twitch in Einsteinian time contraction as the black hole collapsed into existence from a somewhat larger mass, and because the relativistic speed at which the hole was traveling distorted space itself, making a sort of furrow along an Einsteinian geodesic.

Today, however, with modern warp drive systems and expanding trade, the geodesic which skirts the Elysian solar system may become a corridor between the Federation and the farthest extent of the Romulan Neutral Zone, particularly Starbase 32, which lies precariously far from federation neighbors- Whether the non-Federation worlds near the starbase would Provide aid iri an emervnCy is an unknown factor.

If the Riemannian space is a surface embedded in Euclidean space, the geodesics are either straight lines in the external space, or they curve in a direction perpendicular to the surface.

Hunt found him staring at a display of isochrons and distorted spacetime geodesics, and looking very thoughtful.

Rogo for walks in Clarendon Park, an indoor arboretum with some flowers and trees and a small aviary, all housed under a geodesic dome at the edge of Clarendon Level.

Somehow the weapon created a soliton -- a standing-wave -- in the geodesic structure of spacetime.

Zafir was an expert in these little carbon geodesic spheres called buckminsterfullerenes, and he waxed enthusiastic: "Temperatures and pressures in the west Tharsis zone of the fall turned out to be similar to those used in the arc-reactor-synthesis method of making fullerenes, and so there's a hundred-kilometer stretch out there where the carbon on the bottom side of the cable consists almost entirely of buckyballs.

The flat roof had seven satellite uplinks covered by geodesic weather casings that resembled particularly virile bright orange toadstools.

Here, equidistant from the four tapes down which the Tower was being guided earthwards, was a small geodesic hut, looking even more temporary than the surface on which it had been erected.

Indeed, an escape capsule which had left the Alaria only moments before that of the gladiator had, several hours later, as a result of the explosion of a pursuing missile, been severely damaged, and cast adrift thereafter amongst the gravitational geodesics of that portion of space.