oloid

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noun

A three-dimensional curved geometric object, the convex hull of a skeletal frame made by placing two linked congruent circles in perpendicular planes, so that the center of each circle lies on the other circle.

Scrabble 6

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nounoloid (plural oloids)

plural oloids

  1. geometryA three-dimensional curved geometric object, the convex hull of a skeletal frame made by placing two linked congruent circles in perpendicular planes, so that the center of each circle lies on the other circle.

    Furthermore, we derive the expectations of the mean width, the surface area and the volume of the intersections of a fixed oloid and a moving ball, as well as of a fixed and a moving oloid.

    2016, Uwe Bäsel, “The mean width of the oloid and integral geometric applications of it”, in arXiv

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