A geodesic is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path between two points on a surface.
Geodesic may also refer to:
Geodesic (general relativity), generalization of the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime An adjective meaning "related to geodesy", the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding Earth's geometric shape Geodesic dome, a hemispherical lattice-shell structure made from triangles, the shape of which is called a geodesic polyhedron
See also
Geodetic (disambiguation)