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hyperbolic plane

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hyperbolic plane [¦hī·pər‚bäl·ik ′plān]
(mathematics)
A two-dimensional vector spaceEon which there is a nondegenerate, symmetric or alternating form ƒ(x,y) such that there exists a nonzero elementwinEfor which ƒ(w,w) = 0.


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