Crossword clues for geodesic
geodesic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geodesic \Ge`o*des"ic\ (j[=e]`[-o]*d[e^]s"[i^]k), Geodesical \Ge`o*des"ic*al\ (-[i^]*kal), a. [Cf. F. g['e]od['e]sique.]
(Math.) Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic.
(Architecture) Made of lightweight structural supporting elements connected in a manner to provide great rigidity; -- of structures; as, The geodesic dome was invented by R. Buckminster Fuller.
Geodesic \Ge`o*des"ic\, n. A geodetic line or curve.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 of or relating to geodesy 2 of or relating to a geodesic dome n. (context mathematics English) the shortest line between two points on a specific surface
WordNet
adj. of or resembling a geodesic dome
of or relating to or determined by geodesy [syn: geodetic, geodesical]
n. (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere) [syn: geodesic line]
Wikipedia
In differential geometry, a geodesic is a generalization of the notion of a " straight line" to " curved spaces". The term "geodesic" comes from geodesy, the science of measuring the size and shape of Earth; in the original sense, a geodesic was the shortest route between two points on the Earth's surface, namely, a segment of a great circle. The term has been generalized to include measurements in much more general mathematical spaces; for example, in graph theory, one might consider a geodesic between two vertices/nodes of a graph.
In the presence of an affine connection, a geodesic is defined to be a curve whose tangent vectors remain parallel if they are transported along it. If this connection is the Levi-Civita connection induced by a Riemannian metric, then the geodesics are ( locally) the shortest path between points in the space.
Geodesics are of particular importance in general relativity. Timelike geodesics in general relativity describe the motion of free falling test particles.
A geodesic is a generalization of the notion of a " straight line" to " curved spaces" where you cannot travel in a straight line.
In that sense, it is related to:
- Earth geodesics
- Quasigeodesic
- Closed geodesic
- Complex geodesic
- Geodesics in general relativity
- Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows
- Solving the geodesic equations
- Schwarzschild geodesics
- Geodesic map
- Graph geodesic
- Geodesic deviation
- Prime geodesic
- Geodesic manifold
Not directly related are:
- Geodesic dome
- Geodesic grid
- Geodesic tent
- Geodesic airframe
- Geodesic torsion
- Geodesic curvature
- Geodesic lamination
- Geodesic normal coordinates
- Principal geodesic analysis
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.