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PARABOLOIDAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paraboloidal mean?
• PARABOLOIDAL (adjective)
The adjective PARABOLOIDAL has 1 sense:
1. having the shape of a paraboloid
Familiarity information: PARABOLOIDAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the shape of a paraboloid
Similar:
rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)
Derivation:
paraboloid (a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis)
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