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A surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
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paraboloid
Word definitions for paraboloid in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conoid \Co"noid\ (k[=o]"noid), n. [Gr. kwnoeidh`s conical; kw^nos cone + e'i^dos form: cf. F. cono["i]de.] Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone. (Geom.) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mathematics English) 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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics , a paraboloid is a quadric surface of special kind. There are two kinds of paraboloids: elliptic and hyperbolic. The elliptic paraboloid is shaped like an oval cup and can have a maximum or minimum point. In a suitable coordinate system ...
Usage examples of paraboloid.
X-rays bounced off the nest of paraboloid reflectors and hit the scanning focus.
The reflector family: single, dual, paraboloid, spherical, cylindrical, off-set, multi-beam, contoured, hybrid, tracking .
Beyond the flattened ramps and pads it was studded with paraboloid hills and balanced spheres of matter.
He entered a perfectly circular room with vitreous walls and a high paraboloid dome.
Two paraboloid dishes sprouted from its top, one round for radio and microwave, the other elongated, for radar.
Half an hour later, shielded from the wind by a paraboloid force field, Svetz was streaking down the road at sixty miles per hour.
Lacus Solis came to a focus: a marble-white amphitheatre, with a perfect paraboloid floor which reflected the light back up against the icy sky in an almost solid-looking column.
He passed a group of technicians, not quickly enough to avoid hearing the reason for the scene: the hyperbolic paraboloid dome of the new church had a refractory habit of throwing down tinny echoes, as if a whiny, adenoidal God were parodically repeating everything said.
He lay, head and shoulders circled by the intense halo of a paraboloid reading light.
In reality he was almost completely lost in a soundless, sardonic glee over the triangular death-struggle which was nearing its climax beyond the inner wall of his studio, and which was magnified in his remarkable mind to an incredible degree by the paraboloid mirror of the illuminator.
A few months ago, however, it was announced that Russian engineers had developed a cheap and simple method for constructing paraboloid mirrors of large size, capable of producing superheated steam and even of melting iron.
Gateway, and below their giant twin paraboloid zeniths a gemmed altar that demands, recorded, to let it give you a break.
They'd tried, among other methods, a rocket-fuel flame thrower, an electric-arc furnace, and a large, sunlight-concentrating, paraboloid mirror.
They moved on to the first chemistry exhibit, which showed the paraboloid bowl at the bottom of the well, with a translucent electric-blue bell-shape superimposed over it: the lepton wave in its lowest-energy, ground state.
A chain of small pink hills, hyperbolic paraboloid saddles precisely separating members, seemed to grow up out of nothing in the middle distance.