NOUN | an affine plane | affine planes | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- In 1984, "the affine plane associated to the Lorentzian vector space "L"2" was described by Graciela Birman and Katsumi Nomizu in an article entitled "Trigonometry in Lorentzian geometry".
- It is therefore true for triangles in any affine plane over any field.
- In such an oblique coordinate system the computations of distances and angles must be modified from that in standard Cartesian systems, and many standard formulas (such as the Pythagorean formula for the distance) do not hold (see affine plane).
- The asymptotes of an algebraic curve in the affine plane are the lines that are tangent to the projectivized curve through a point at infinity.
- The Moulton plane has parallel classes of lines and is an affine plane.
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