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PARABOLOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("paraboloid" is a kind of...):
plane figure; two-dimensional figure (a two-dimensional shape)
Derivation:
paraboloidal (having the shape of a paraboloid)