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Definition of Paraboloids
1. paraboloid [n] - See also: paraboloid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraboloids
Literary usage of Paraboloids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1873)
"Confocal paraboloids. 154.] If in the general equations we transfer the origin
of coordinates to a point on the axis of x distant t from the centre of the ..."
2. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1874)
"Diese beiden Ebenen sind reell in dem Falle des elliptischen paraboloids für cau
... In dem Falle des hyperbolischen paraboloids existiert hingegen kein ..."
3. An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Attraction by Francis Alexander Tarleton (1899)
"Two points whose coordinates are x, y, z and x', y', z', situated on confocal
paraboloids of the same family whose parameters are X and X', correspond when ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Solid Geometry by Charles Smith (1886)
"THE paraboloids. 101. We have seen that the paraboloids are particular cases of
the central surfaces; properties of the paraboloids can therefore be deduced ..."
5. Solid Geometry by Percival Frost (1886)
"Confocal paraboloids. 311. The propositions relating to paraboloids can be ...
to prove them independently, although the equations of the paraboloids being ..."
6. Vestiges of Pre-metric Weights and Measures Persisting in Metric-system by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1881)
"Confocal paraboloids, 154.] If in the general equations we transfer the origin
of coordinates to a point on the axis of x distant t from the centre of the ..."
7. Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry by William Fogg Osgood, William Caspar Graustein (1921)
"The paraboloids. Tlie Elliptic Paraboloid. The surface defined by the equation
a) 5+S-2z is called an elliptic paraboloid. If a = b, it is in particular a ..."
8. The Elements of Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry by Albert Luther Candy (1904)
"The paraboloids are the limiting forms of the central ... hyperboloid of two
sheets, and one sheet, respectively, The first two are elliptic paraboloids, ..."
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