paraboloid

pa·rab·o·loid Audio Help (pə-rāb'ə-loid')

n. A surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis.
pa·rab'o·loi'dal (-loid'l) adj.

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