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  2. Skew lines - Wikipedia

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    The line through segment AD and the line through segment B 1 B are skew lines because they are not in the same plane. In three-dimensional geometry, skew lines are two lines that do not intersect and are not parallel. A simple example of a pair of skew lines is the pair of lines through opposite edges of a regular tetrahedron.

  3. Descriptive geometry - Wikipedia

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    Example of the use of descriptive geometry to find the shortest connector between two skew lines. The red, yellow and green highlights show distances which are the same for projections of point P. Given the X, Y and Z coordinates of P, R, S and U, projections 1 and 2 are drawn to scale on the X-Y and X-Z planes, respectively.

  4. Coplanarity - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a set of points in space are coplanar if there exists a geometric plane that contains them all. For example, three points are always coplanar, and if the points are distinct and non-collinear, the plane they determine is unique. However, a set of four or more distinct points will, in general, not lie in a single plane.

  5. Skew - Wikipedia

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    Skew lines, neither parallel nor intersecting. Skew normal distribution, a probability distribution; Skew field or division ring; Skew-Hermitian matrix; Skew lattice; Skew polygon, whose vertices do not lie on a plane; Infinite skew polyhedron; Skew-symmetric graph; Skew-symmetric matrix; Skew tableau, a generalization of Young tableaux

  6. Skew coordinates - Wikipedia

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    A system of skew coordinates is a curvilinear coordinate system where the coordinate surfaces are not orthogonal, [1] in contrast to orthogonal coordinates.. Skew coordinates tend to be more complicated to work with compared to orthogonal coordinates since the metric tensor will have nonzero off-diagonal components, preventing many simplifications in formulas for tensor algebra and tensor ...

  7. Non-Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

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    The simplest of these is called elliptic geometry and it is considered a non-Euclidean geometry due to its lack of parallel lines. [12] By formulating the geometry in terms of a curvature tensor, Riemann allowed non-Euclidean geometry to apply to higher dimensions. Beltrami (1868) was the first to apply Riemann's geometry to spaces of negative ...

  8. Regulus (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A string model of a portion of a regulus and its opposite to show the rules on a hyperboloid of one sheet. In three-dimensional space, a regulus R is a set of skew lines, every point of which is on a transversal which intersects an element of R only once, and such that every point on a transversal lies on a line of R.

  9. Petersen–Morley theorem - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, the Petersen–Morley theorem states that, if a, b, c are three general skew lines in space, if a ′, b ′, c ′ are the lines of shortest distance respectively for the pairs (b,c), (c,a) and (a,b), and if p, q and r are the lines of shortest distance respectively for the pairs (a,a ′), (b,b ′) and (c,c ′), then there is a single line meeting at right angles all of p, q ...