Usually means: Surface shaped like stretched parabola.
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  1. paraboloid: Merriam-Webster
  2. paraboloid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paraboloid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paraboloid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paraboloid: Vocabulary.com
  6. paraboloid: Wordnik
  7. paraboloid: Wiktionary
  8. paraboloid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. paraboloid: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. paraboloid: Dictionary.com
  11. Paraboloid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Paraboloid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. paraboloid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. paraboloid: Rhymezone
  15. Paraboloid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. paraboloid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. paraboloid: FreeDictionary.org
  18. paraboloid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. paraboloid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. paraboloid: Encyclopedia

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  2. paraboloid: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Paraboloid: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paraboloid)

▸ 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.

Similar:
paraboloid of revolution, parabolic mirror, hyperboloid of revolution, parabolic reflector, parabola, ellipsoid, parabolization, elliptoid, toroid, ellipsoid of revolution, more...

Opposite:
hyperboloid, ellipsoid, sphere

Types:
hyperboloid, ellipsoid, spheroid, more...

Phrases:
hyperbolic paraboloid, elliptic paraboloid, paraboloid reflector, paraboloid of revolution, more...

Adjectives:
hyperbolic, elliptic, axis, elliptical, truncated, foot, circular, true, steerable, smooth, solid

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Similar:
paraboloid of revolution, parabolic mirror, hyperboloid of revolution, parabolic reflector, parabola, ellipsoid, parabolization, elliptoid, toroid, ellipsoid of revolution, more...

Opposite:
hyperboloid, ellipsoid, sphere

Types:
hyperboloid, ellipsoid, spheroid, more...

Phrases:
hyperbolic paraboloid, elliptic paraboloid, paraboloid reflector, paraboloid of revolution, more...

Adjectives:
hyperbolic, elliptic, axis, elliptical, truncated, foot, circular, true, steerable, smooth, solid



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