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HYPERBOLOID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperboloid mean?
• HYPERBOLOID (noun)
The noun HYPERBOLOID has 1 sense:
1. a quadric surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around its main axis
Familiarity information: HYPERBOLOID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quadric surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around its main axis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("hyperboloid" is a kind of...):
quadric; quadric surface (a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree)
Derivation:
hyperboloidal (having the shape of a hyperboloid)
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