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单词 geodetic line
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geodetic line
2. Geometry. = geodesic adj. 3. Chiefly in geodesic curve, geodetic line.
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1811 C. Hutton Course Math. III. v. 115 A line traced in the manner we have now been describing..is called a geodetic or geodesic line: it has the property of being the shortest which can be drawn between its two extremities on the surface of the earth.
1853 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1850–3 5 340 If the proposed boundary B be a closed geodetic curve returning into itself, the total curvature of the included portion of the surface will be equal to a hemisphere.
1870 Nature 13 Jan. 297/2 To obtain the length of the arc of any orthogonal trajectory to the two geodetic lines in question.
1917 Science 23 Nov. 513/2 Linear growth of the former [spicules] under restraint leading to forms which have for their mathematical basis geodetic curves.
1966 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S. 55 1401 Nets that form manifolds with boundaries that are disjoint, simply connected closed geodetic polygons.
2002 J. Chay Unequal Partners Peace & War ii. 33 The 38th parallel, a geodetic line, which cuts Korea indiscriminately, created a critical situation on the peninsula.
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