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Definition of Paraboloid
1. Noun. A surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis.
Definition of Paraboloid
1. n. 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.
Definition of Paraboloid
1. Noun. (mathematics) 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. ¹
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Definition of Paraboloid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraboloid
Literary usage of Paraboloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"We have seen (Art. 107) that a plane is a tangent to a second degree when it
meets it in two real or lines; and (Art. 87) that a paraboloid is met by at ..."
2. New Analytic Geometry by Percey Franklyn Smith, Arthur Sullivan Gale (1912)
"If a = b, the first surface considered is a paraboloid of revolution whose ...
An elliptic paraboloid lies along the axis corresponding to the term of the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"paraboloid. A surface of the second order, some of whose plane sections are para-
... These will be found described under ELLIPTIC paraboloid aud HYPERBOLIC ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"5 —Hyperbolic-paraboloid. lines infinite in number; (2) the hyperboloid of one
sheet and the hyperbolic paraboloid, each containing two sets of generating ..."
5. How to Work with the Microscope by Lionel Smith Beale (1880)
"The Immersion paraboloid Illuminator, designed by Dr. James Edmunds, ...
This paraboloid is constructed by Messrs. Powell and Lealand, at about the same ..."
6. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1877)
"But with high powers of large angular aperture and with immersion fronts, the
Wenham paraboloid introduces fog, while it fails to give a dark background. ..."
7. An Elementary Treatise on Solid Geometry by Charles Smith (1886)
"The hyperbolic paraboloid is a particular case of the hyperboloid of one sheet;
... This can be proved at once from the equation of the paraboloid. ..."
8. An Elementary Treatise on Solid Geometry: By Charles Smith by Charles Smith (1884)
"The hyperbolic paraboloid is a particular case of the hyperboloid of one sheet;
... This can be proved at once from the equation of the paraboloid. ..."
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