paraboloid

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: pa=rab=o=loid

CIDE DICTIONARY

paraboloid, n. [Parabola + -oid: cf. F. paraboloïde.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]
" The term paraboloid has sometimes been applied also to the parabolas of the higher orders."  Hutton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

paraboloid, n.
1 (in full paraboloid of revolution) a solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis of symmetry.
2 a solid having two or more non-parallel parabolic cross-sections.

Derivative

paraboloidal adj.

ROGET THESAURUS

paraboloid

Curvature

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