elliptic paraboloid

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noun Geometry.

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

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The female has two breasts, rather elliptic than round, placed near the arm-pits.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Immersed in a subject with which they were all familiar, they were allusive, elliptic, and persistently technical.
The Riddle of the Sands|Erskine Childers
It is elliptic; revisere being understood, or some similar word.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols)|Thomas De Quincey
Planet, plan′et, n. one of the bodies in the solar system which revolve in elliptic orbits round the sun.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various

Like the functions sine and cosine, the elliptic functions have addition theorems, e.g.
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