(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:29:43

Eu*clid"i*an (?), n.

Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.

Euclidian space Geom., the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.

 

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