Cylindroid
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A cylindroid is a cylinder
that has an elliptical cross-section. See also Plücker’s conoid
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Cylinder (geometry)
A cylinder is one of the most basic curvilinear geometric shapes, the surface formed by the points at a fixed distance from a given line segment, the axis of the cylinder. The solid enclosed by this surface and by two planes perpendicular to the axis is also called a cylinder...
that has an elliptical cross-section. See also Plücker’s conoid
Plücker’s conoid
In geometry, the Plücker’s conoid is a ruled surface named after the German mathematician Julius Plücker. It is also called a cylindroid or .The Plücker’s conoid is defined by the function of two variables:...
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