spheroid
IPA: sfˈɪrɔɪd
noun
- A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.
adjective
- Of a shape similar to a squashed sphere.
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Examples of "spheroid" in Sentences
- The earth is an oblate spheroid.
- The volume of a prolate spheroid is calculated well.
- The outer surface is visualized as an oblate spheroid.
- The fruit are spheroid to ellipsoid in shape, long and wide.
- Also, the formula for a prolate spheroid seems to be incorrect.
- One such method is to approximate the tumor shape by a spheroid.
- The shape of the Earth is very close to that of an oblate spheroid.
- The ball is a hard leather seamed spheroid with a circumference of.
- Then idly he rolled a dimpled spheroid around the palm of his hand.
- Rotation about the other axis produces the oblate spheroidal coordinates.
- In three dimensions, the nebula is thought to be shaped like a prolate spheroid.
- "You'll see the Earth is curved but it won't be, 'We live on this oblate spheroid!'"
- 'The effect of graviational radiation on the secular stability of the Maclaurin spheroid', Astrophys.
- At the flat end of the spheroid was a small ring of a pink colour, from which ran lines forming the ribs, which supported the sides of the animal.
- Page 548, Volume 1 weaker than at the less distant poles, and Huygens 'pendulum clock should beat time more slowly at lower latitudes than at higher latitudes on this oblate spheroid which is our earth.
- She's also not great looking-her skin's a little sallow and either through genetics or lack of maintanence she's cursed with an enormous frizzy Jew fro, which she always wears bobbling back and forth in a gigantic spheroid on top of her head.
- Part of the play's appeal today is nostalgic: it evokes an era when football reporters talked of "agitating the spheroid to the sticks" and when a star centre-forward, bent on self-improvement, could say "there's things in Browning I can't figure out and Walter Pater has me beat to atoms."
- The labours of Fernel and above all of Picard, upon the measure of a terrestrial degree between Paris and Amiens, had made it clear that the globe is not a sphere, but a spheroid, that is to say, a ball flattened at the poles and swollen at the equator, and thus were found at one stroke the form and the dimensions of the world which we inhabit.
- Therefore, we—as the children of monkeys who fetishized symmetry and evenness—inherited a desire to live in a perfectly round world instead of a flat-topped oblate spheroid; to want planets that traveled in perfectly round orbits instead of weird egg-shaped ellipses and an Earth that looked like an inkblot with the equator as the fold.