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Spheroid   /sfˈɪrˌɔɪd/   Listen
Spheroid

noun
1.
A shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes.  Synonym: ellipsoid of revolution.



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"Spheroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... sun by an explosion along with as large a quantity of surrounding hot vapour as its attraction would occasion to accompany it, the ponderous semi-fluid nucleus would take a spherical form from the attraction of its own parts, which would become an oblate spheroid from its diurnal revolution. As the vapour cooled the water would be precipitated, and an ocean would surround the spherical nucleus with a superincumbent atmosphere. The nucleus of solar lava would ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin

... a finished world, or whether it was destined to undergo any further transformation. Did it resemble the earth at the period when the latter was destitute as yet of an atmosphere? What kind of spectacle would its hidden hemisphere present to our terrestrial spheroid? Granting that the question at present was simply that of sending a projectile up to the moon, every one must see that that involved the commencement of a series of experiments. All must hope that some day America would penetrate ...
— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne



Words linked to "Spheroid" :   round shape, spheroid joint, ellipsoid of revolution, spheroidal



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