Spheroid Synonyms

sfîroid, sfĕr-
A shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ellipsoid-of-revolution

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Spheroid Sentence Examples

  • Legendre was also the author of a memoir upon triangles drawn upon a spheroid.

  • An egg is more or less a prolate spheroid, and the difference between it and a sphere is quite obvious visually.

  • Using the mathematical model and the experimental evidence we show that the tumor cell size is reduced by solid stress inside the tumor spheroid.

  • The " tetrahedral theory " brought forward by Lowthian Green,' that the form of the earth is a spheroid based on a regular tetrahedron, is more serviceable, because it accounts for three very interesting facts of the terrestrial plan - (1) the antipodal position of continents and ocean basins; (2) the tri angular outline of the continents; and (3) the excess of sea in the southern hemisphere.

  • In his extant Conoids and Spheroids he defines a conoid to be the solid formed by the revolution of the parabola and hyperbola about its axis, and a spheroid to be formed similarly from the ellipse; these solids he discussed with great acumen, and effected their cubature by his famous "method of exhaustions."

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