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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A volume generated by the rotation of a plane figure about an axis in its plane.
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- noun A
solid produced by taking a particulartwo-dimensional curve and rotating it through 360° about anaxis . The curve will sweep out asurface , and the region inside the surface defines a solid.
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