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ellipsoid
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ellipsoid
A geometric surface or a solid figure shaped like an oval. Any section through an ellipsoic is either an ellipse or a circle; oval-shaped.
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Word Entries containing the term: “ellipsoid
spheroid, ellipsoid of revolution
1. A three-dimensional object that is shaped like a sphere, but is not perfectly round; such as, an ellipsoid or a geometric surface or a solid figure shaped like an oval.
2. Having a shape that is approximately spherical.
3. Any globular body, or one resembling a sphere.
4. An ellipsoid (a geometric surface or a solid figure shaped like an oval) generated by the rotation of an ellipse (a two-dimensional shape like a stretched circle with slightly longer flatter sides) around one of its axes or a straight line around which a geometric figure or a three-dimensional object is symmetrical.
This entry is located in the following units: -oid, -oidal, -oidism, -odic (page 19) sphero-, spher-, -sphere- (page 14)