What is the meaning of hyperbolic geometry?

noun

  • Mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel axiom is replaced by the assumption that through any point in a plane there are two or more lines that do not intersect a given line in the plane. (
    • usage: "Karl Gauss pioneered hyperbolic geometry"
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