Doubly ruled surface

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This article defines a property that makes sense for a surface embedded in

R3

, viz three-dimensional Euclidean space. The property is invariant under orthogonal transformations and scaling, i.e., under all similarity transformations.
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Definition

A surface embedded in R3 is said to be doubly ruled if given any point in the surface, there are two distinct lines through the point, that lie completely on the surface.

Relation with other properties

Weaker properties