† paraboliformadj.
Geometry. Obsolete. rare.
Having the form of or resembling a parabola.
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1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Paraboloids, are Paraboliform Curves in Geometry.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Paraboliform Curves, a name sometimes given to the parabolas of the higher orders.
1868 J. Thomas & J. M. Keagy J. Oswald's Etymol. Dict. (rev. ed.) 273 (note) Paraboloid, in geometry, a paraboliform curve, whose ordinates are supposed to be in the subtriplicate, subquadruplicate, &c. ratio of their respective abscissæ.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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