Word: paraboloid
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...radio astronomers are getting a movable telescope that is bigger and more precise than any they have ever had before. It is a huge, 328-ft. paraboloid nestled in West Germany's Eifel hills at Effelsberg, about 25 miles southwest of Bonn. More than 75 feet larger than the existing record holder, Britain's big Jodrell Bank radio antenna, the steel-and-aluminum instrument is now undergoing its final checkouts before it begins scanning the heavens in earnest this fall...
After You, Please. The most advanced designs for theaters and research labs, not to mention libraries, have found their first expression in university buildings. Long spans, hyperbolic paraboloid roofs, computerized designs and other advanced structural techniques often are used with unabashed gusto...
...have finally learned what Rupp modestly calls "the Kentucky system." Freely translated, it means run, run, run and never, never miss. A perfectionist rather than an innovator, Rupp decries such newfangled tactics as the zone press defense which he sometimes uses but insists on calling a "stratified, transitional hyperbolic paraboloid." He relies on ten offensive plays, which his team practices with a devotion to duty unseen since the Spartans of ancient Greece...
...Dish engineering--The study will contemplate novel designs for the antenna beyond the usual paraboloid construction...
...prisoner of geometry." Candela is usually content to let the soaring geometry speak for itself, but with churches, he admits with a grin, "we refine a little." One of his most beautiful is the chapel in Lomas de Cuernavaca, done with Architect Guillermo Rosell. It is a pure hyperbolic paraboloid whose slender edges seem to float free and whose roof slopes from each end down to a skylight. Guarded by a tapering cross, it stands upon a lonely hill, surging toward the sky-a modern version of the mighty Gothic reach...