PARABOLOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paraboloid mean? 

• PARABOLOID (noun)
  The noun PARABOLOID has 1 sense:

1. a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis

  Familiarity information: PARABOLOID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARABOLOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("paraboloid" is a kind of...):

plane figure; two-dimensional figure (a two-dimensional shape)

Derivation:

paraboloidal (having the shape of a paraboloid)

 Context examples 

"The hyperbolic paraboloid is a striking pattern that has been used in architectural designs the world over," said Glaucio Paulino of Georgia Tech.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

Research examined whether the popular origami pattern that resembles the geometric hyperbolic paraboloid — or hypar — had the same physical characteristics as its geometric counterpart.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

Remarkably, these engineering researchers developed this first mathematical proof, which shows that the elegant shape folded from concentrically pleated squares is invariantly a hyperbolic paraboloid, said Nakhiah Goulbourne, NSF program director for Mechanics of Materials and Structures.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)