paraboloid.
(Of parable and -oide).
1. m. Geom. Whose flat sections are parabolas, ellipses or circles, and surface extends indefinitely in one direction.
2. m. Geom. Covered solid between this area and any other which limits.
1. m. Geom. The resulting from the rotation of a parabola around its axis.
elliptical.1. m. Geom. Anyone whose flat sections perpendicular to its axis are ellipses.
1. m. Geom. Twisted surface that extends indefinitely in all senses of contrary curvatures as a saddle horse, and whose flat sections are all parabolas and hyperbolas.
