shell method

shell method

[′shel ‚meth·əd]
(mathematics)
A method of computing the volume of a solid of revolution by integrating over the volumes of infinitesimal shell-shaped sections bounded by cylinders with the same axis of revolution as the solid.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The second method, Display, is defined as a shell method; everything implemented in the method will be executed before its list of doer methods.
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