HYPERBOLIC PARABOLOID


Meaning of HYPERBOLIC PARABOLOID in English

Function: noun

Date: 1842

: a saddle-shaped quadric surface whose sections by planes parallel to one coordinate plane are hyperbolas while those sections by planes parallel to the other two are parabolas if proper orientation of the coordinate axes is assumed

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