We're back to my hyperbolic, paraboloid, transitional floating zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flip Saunders ready to zone out] Reference

The other pair of edges, the short edges, were the bases of a golden paraboloid arch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringworld]

It has 4 nester hyperboloid mirrors and 4 nested paraboloid mirrors to focus the x-rays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Podcast: Steampunk Panel at ReaderCon] Reference

The blue Ringworld formed a paraboloid arch over it all, framed against a star-dotted sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringworld]

The idea was to set off an explosion in front of the paraboloid, at the exact focal point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

Great silver paraboloid platters sending concentrated sunlight to their dark green photosynthetic nodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [World of Ptavvs]

His attention was on high lattices, surrounding a paraboloid (?), which grew out of the shell where he stood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inconstant Star]

A hundred meters away, huddled into another white paraboloid, watching them, is a fat kid in a gray tanker jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

If you aren't quite sure what a hyperbolic paraboloid is, it's a mathematical term to describe a surface shaped like a saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flip Saunders ready to zone out] Reference

It's remarkable how much light you can gather with a six-hundred-foot paraboloid of sodium when there's no atmosphere in the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Conscience]

Maximum temperatures measured in the focal spot are - depending on the paraboloid precision and the concentration factor 400 ... 1000ºC/187/.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Solar Cookers and Solar Cooker Projects] Reference

The reflecting surface is usually made of treated aluminum or a mirror-finish metal or plastic sheet, but it may also consist of numerous little flat mirrors cemented onto the inside of the paraboloid.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Solar Cookers and Solar Cooker Projects] Reference

It is not the scope of the synagogue that sets it apart, or the technical marvel of his hallmark hyperbolic paraboloid roofs — which he describes as being shaped something like a Pringles potato chip.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shul Grows in Virginia | Jewschool] Reference

Help finding the volume of the solid enclosed by the paraboloid?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

When both squared terms are positive, like in the first equation, the paraboloid is an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The roof took the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid that helped keep weight-and thus costs-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archpaper.com - News Channel] Reference

The Silky Epeira also has all the elbow-room she needs; and her paraboloid is not without elegance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Spider] Reference

If n = |, the solid becomes a paraboloid, and LG If 72 = 1, the solid becomes a cone, and LG = | x.    From Wordnik.com.  [The principles of fluxions : designed for the use of students in the university] Reference

Behind this was a curious, paraboloid projector made up of hundreds of tiny, carefully orientated coils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ultimate Weapon] Reference

Dr. Abbot has whittled this down somewhat by building up his 50-foot paraboloid of comparatively small segments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Mechanix] Reference

The rear quarter panels, with their complex hyper-paraboloid shape and deep "draw" -- which is to say, the depth of the metal-stamping form -- would have been too difficult and expensive to manufacture.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

As to the paraboloid course pursued by the projectile, the resistance of the air is a factor which Galileo could not accurately compute, and which interferes with the practical realization of his theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science] Reference

A paraboloid form was shaped and distorted to achieve an optimal orientation for summer in various cities around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

"hyperbolic paraboloid," but in layman's terms looks more like a massive potato chip made of steel and fiberglass and flooded with hundreds of stage lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)] Reference

When both squared terms are positive, like in the first equation, the paraboloid is an elliptical paraboloid (shaped like a roundish, eggish blob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A huge paraboloid breath-detector.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Sweet Dry and Dry] Reference

Condenser achromatic, 54 dark ground, 60 paraboloid, 60 substage, 54.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

And that, guys, is the hyperbolic, paraboloid, transitional floating zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flip Saunders ready to zone out] Reference