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hyperboloid

The English word “hyperboloid” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A particular surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space, the graph of a quadratic with all three variables squared and their coefficients not all of the same sign.

Etymology

From hyperbola + -oid.

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