Usually means: Shortest path between two points.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. geodesic: Merriam-Webster
  2. geodesic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. geodesic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. geodesic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. geodesic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Geodesic, geodesic: Wordnik
  7. geodesic: Wiktionary
  8. geodesic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. geodesic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. geodesic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. geodesic: Dictionary.com
  12. geodesic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Geodesic (disambiguation), Geodesic (general relativity), Geodesic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Geodesic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. geodesic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. geodesic: Rhymezone
  17. Geodesic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. geodesic: FreeDictionary.org
  19. geodesic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. geodesic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. geodesic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Geodesic (general relativity), geodesic: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Geodesic: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Geodesic: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Geodesic: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. geodesic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (geodesic)

▸ noun:  (geometry) The shortest curve between two points on a specific surface.
▸ noun:  (spherical geometry) A segment of a great circle.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, sciences) A course allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that causes tangent vectors to remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a straight curve, a line that is straight).
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to geodesy.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to a geodesic dome.

Similar:
geodesical, geodetic, geodesic line, geodesicity, directrix, great circle, Didonia, curve, ellipse, spheroconic, more...

Opposite:
nongeodesic, curved, non-straight, non-shortest

Phrases:
geodesic dome, geodesic domes, geodesic lines, geodesic line, null geodesic, more...

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null, timelike, unique, closed, like, same, shortest, incomplete, spacelike, single, radial

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Similar:
geodesical, geodetic, geodesic line, geodesicity, directrix, great circle, Didonia, curve, ellipse, spheroconic, more...

Opposite:
nongeodesic, curved, non-straight, non-shortest

Phrases:
geodesic dome, geodesic domes, geodesic lines, geodesic line, null geodesic, geodesic equation, Geodesic curvature, geodesic flow, geodesic sphere, geodesic triangle, geodesic circle, Geodesic grid, more...

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null, timelike, unique, closed, like, same, shortest, incomplete, spacelike, single, radial

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