As an adjective, it describes hypotheses concerning the precise shape of the Earth and the significance thereof.
As an adjective, it describes hypotheses concerning the precise shape of the Earth and the significance thereof. As a noun, it can refer to a curve with the greatest lapse of proper time between two events in space-time, such as would be described by  a freely falling body. Generally, they are the curves of minimal path length in a certain metric space, such as a great circle on a sphere. FTP, what is this term which Buckminster Fuller used to describe his domes?
As an adjective, it describes hypotheses concerning the precise shape of the Earth and the significance thereof.
geodesic