paraboloid
pa·ra·bo·loid
noun
1.
a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
Origin
From parabola + -oid.
Phrases
- elliptic paraboloid
- hyperbolic paraboloid
- paraboloid of revolution
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