paraboloid

noun

A surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic or circular sections perpendicular to that axis.

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A solid or surface of the second degree some of whose plane-sections are parabolas.

Paraboloidal.

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The solid generated by the revolution of a parabola about its axis; a parabolic conoid.

noun

A curve whose equation is of the form ax = y.

noun

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.

noun

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.

noun

a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis