paraboloid

/pəˌræbəˈlɔɪd/
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Other forms: paraboloids

Definitions of paraboloid
  1. noun
    a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
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    type of:
    plane figure, two-dimensional figure
    a two-dimensional shape
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