Homaloid

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homaloid \Hom"a*loid\ (h[o^]m"[.a]*loid), Homaloidal
  \Hom`a*loid"al\ (-loid"al), a. [Gr. "omalo`s even + -oid.]
     (Geom.)
     Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces,
     whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms,
     and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines


     are assumed to hold true.
     [1913 Webster]