"real projective plane" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: real projective planes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} real projective plane (plural real projective planes)
  1. (geometry) A three-dimensional vector space over the field of real numbers in which one-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “points” and two-dimensional linear subspaces are considered as “lines”. Equivalently, a sphere in which pairs of antipodal points are considered as “points” and great circles are considered as “lines”. Wikipedia link: real projective plane Categories (topical): Geometry, Surfaces Hypernyms: projective plane

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