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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 axisplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HYPERBOLOID (noun)


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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