geodesicity
Meanings
noun
- The property of a smooth curve being a geodesic or of a vector field to be geodesic in the context of differential geometry.
- The characterisation of a differentiable manifold in terms of its geodesics, such as the quality of a submanifold being totally geodesic.
Word forms
Etymology
From geodesic + -ity.
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