quadric surface

1. 1.

   a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree

   Synonymsquadric

   Broadercurve

   Narrowerhyperboloid

Questions about quadric surface

What does quadric surface mean?

quadric surface means "a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree".

What is another word for quadric surface?

Close synonyms include quadric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quadric surface a common word?

quadric surface is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.