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Poincaré disc

Poincaré disc is the alternative form of Poincaré disk.

Meaning of Poincaré disk

Noun

Poincaré disk (plural Poincaré disks)

  1. The hyperbolic plane, viewed as a disk so that Euclidean circles and lines Euclidean-perpendicular to the disk's surface are hyperbolic lines.

Forms of Poincaré disc

pluralPoincaré discs

Questions about Poincaré disc

What is Poincaré disc the alternative form of?
Poincaré disc is the alternative form of Poincaré disk.

Words near Poincaré disc in the dictionary

  1. poinards
  2. Poincaré
  3. Poincaré ball
  4. Poincaré balls
  5. Poincaré conjecture
  6. Poincaré disc
  7. Poincaré discs
  8. Poincaré disk
  9. Poincaré disks
  10. Poincaré map
  11. Poincaré maps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Poincaré disc (page history and authors); Poincaré disk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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