| 单词 |
homaloidal |
| 释义 |
homaloidal, a. Geom.|hɒməˈlɔɪdəl| [f. as prec. + -al1.] Of the nature of a plane; flat: see quots.
1875Proctor Fam. Sci. Stud. (1882) 21, I personally have often found relief from the dreary infinities of Homaloidal space (that is space where straight lines are straight and planes plane..) in the consoling thought that, after all, this other may be the true state of things. 1885C. L. Morgan Springs of Conduct ii. iii. 79 The space that we know is practically homaloidal. It is possible that it may not be theoretically homaloidal—that is to say, it is possible that the shortest path between two points may not be an absolutely straight line, but a very, very little curved. |

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