Paraboloid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A surface having a parabolic cross section parallel to an axis, and circular or elliptical cross section perpendicular to the axis; especially the surface of revolution of a parabola.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The solid generated by the revolution of a parabola about its axis; a parabolic conoid.
  • n. A curve whose equation is of the form ax = y.
  • n. A solid or surface of the second degree some of whose plane-sections are parabolas.
  • Paraboloidal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
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