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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pa·rab·o·loid /pəˈræbəˌlɔɪd/
 拋物面

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 paraboloid
 拋物面

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pa·rab·o·loid n.  Geom. The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.
 Note: ☞ The term paraboloid has sometimes been applied also to the parabolas of the higher orders.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 paraboloid
      n : a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single
          coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to
          that axis