quadric surface
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of quadric surface
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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If a line moves so that it always cuts three given lines of which no two meet, then it generates a ruled quadric surface.
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ELLIPSOID, a quadric surface whose sections are ellipses.
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The diameter of a quadric surface is a line at the extremities of which the tangent planes are parallel.
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From what has been said the theorem follows: A ruled quadric surface contains two sets of straight lines.
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Each ray cuts its corresponding plane in a point, the locus of these points is a quadric surface.
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