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n. (l en vector space)
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A linear space is a basic structure in incidence geometry. A linear space consists of a set of elements called points, and a set of elements called lines. Each line is a distinct subset of the points. The points in a line are said to be incident with the line. Any two lines may have no more than one point in common. Intuitively, this rule can be visualized as two straight lines, which never intersect more than once.
(Finite) linear spaces can be seen as a generalization of projective and affine planes, and more broadly, of 2-(v, k, 1) block designs, where the requirement that every block contains the same number of points is dropped and the essential structural characteristic is that 2 points are incident with exactly 1 line.
The term linear space was coined by Libois in 1964, though many results about linear spaces are much older.
Usage examples of "linear space".
We're in the process of making a practical reality out of the design data on the Druufs' linear space-drive, which we took from them 58 years ago.
With half the speed of light they plummeted down toward Archetz, leaving behind in linear space most of the planet's fortification.
He wondered if this could be that Jefe Claudrin who had shot through the heart of a star together with Rhodan on board the Fantasy, the first Terran ship with linear space drive.
Kalup was the first to get suspicious when he went into discussions with Cardif-Rhodan over development work concerning the linear space-drive.
Standing on its pad apart from the major Fleet units was the battleship Ironduke, which was equipped with the new linear space-drive.
It contains the construction details for the translight linear space drive.
II Corps's two divisions were spread across twenty miles of linear space and about eight miles of depth, so said the IVIS gear.
In the ancient days of mechanical exchanges it had been a linear space the diameter of a single copper wire.
Theoretically, the interphaser opened dimensional rifts much like the gateways, but instead of the rifts being pathways through linear space, Lakesh had envisioned them as a method to travel through the gaps in normal space-time.
I don't know, though, if we could go this fast even with the linear space drive.