Definition of "geodesics" [geodesics]

• Plural form of geodesic. (noun)

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• "But the major conquest wrested from the equivalence of the masses was the elimination of gravity: all freely falling bodies in the same region experience the same acceleration because the presence of large objects distorts the space around them and the bodies have no alternative but to follow the "geodesics" - straight lines in the curved space in which they find themselves."
• "Gravity if a field which in a spacetime perspective focuses the spacetime paths, called geodesics, together."
• "This is a partly spherical structure that has a network of large circles (known as geodesics) which lie on a sphere."