hyperbolic paraboloid

American  

noun

Geometry.

1. a paraboloid that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to one coordinate plane are hyperbolas, with its sections parallel to the other two coordinate planes being parabolas.

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Etymology

Origin of hyperbolic paraboloid

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

He topped the whole thing off with a swooping, saddle-shaped roof — a hyperbolic paraboloid in design-speak — that gave it a distinct presence.

From New York Times

We are resistant to change in food packaging, attached to our squeezy honey bear, Toblerone’s triangular prism, the resealable paperboard tube that houses Pringles’s neat stack of hyperbolic paraboloid chips.

From Washington Post

The shape is not a pyramid, actually, but a hyperbolic paraboloid, rectangular on the ground, with a swooping roof-facade, a bit like the billowed sail of a ship, sweeping upward from 12th Avenue to the mast’s peak at the northeast corner of the site, 467 feet high.

From New York Times

It includes the hyperbolic paraboloid, or off-center pyramid, above.

From New York Times

The 32-story building may resemble an off-center pyramid, but the architects prefer to describe it as a hyperbolic paraboloid.

From New York Times