Circle is to cylinder as ellipse is to what?
What do you call the geometric shape obtained when you give an ellipse thickness? Or in other words, a circle is to a cylinder as an ellipse is to what?
A circle is to a cylinder as an ellipse is to a cylinder. As noted in wiktionary, a cylinder is
A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied.
You might say that a circle is to a right circular cylinder as an ellipse is to a right elliptical cylinder.
Ellipsoid is of course not the answer. A circle is to a sphere as an ellipse is to an ellipsoid.