hyperboloid

hy·per·bo·loid Audio Help (hī-pûr'bə-loid')

n. Either of two quadric surfaces generated by rotating a hyperbola about either of its main axes and having a finite center with certain plane sections that are hyperbolas and others that are ellipses or circles.
hy·per'bo·loid'al (-loid'l) adj.

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