"projective line" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: projective lines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} projective line (plural projective lines)
  1. (projective geometry) A line that includes a point at infinity; a line in a projective space; a projective space of dimension 1. Wikipedia link: projective line Categories (topical): Shapes Synonyms (line with a point at infinity): projective straight line Derived forms: complex projective line Related terms: projective completion, projective plane, projective space Translations (line with point at infinity): retta proiettiva [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-projective_line-en-noun-hnIFPbyr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Infinity, Manifolds

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          "ref": "2007, Unnamed translator, Ana Irene Ramírez Galarza, José Seade, Introduction to Classical Geometries, [2002, Introducciòn a la Geometria Avanzada], Springer (Birkhäuser), page 97, In P2( R ), the projective lines are defined by two projective points, that is, by two linearly independent directions of R ³; if we take one vector for each direction, the two vectors generate a plane through the origin in R ³, that is, a subspace of dimension 2, and a projective line can be defined as follows",
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