Definitionn. a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes
Last update: December 9, 2015
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He thus obtained a spheroid, the capacity of which amounted, in round numbers, to ninety thousand cubic feet. [Please select]
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He wears the usual youth's garment, the short toga, reaching below the knee, and a hollow spheroid of gold suspended round his neck. [Please select]
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Granting that the geoid or mean surface of the ocean is a uniform spheroid, the distribution of land and water approximately indicates a division of the surface of the globe into two areas, one of elevation and one of depression. [Please select]
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Oblate: flattened; applied to a spheroid of which the diameter is shortened at two opposite ends. [Please select]
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The egg is an elongated oval, compressed almost throughout its entire length, very blunt at both points; a long cone, the apex broadly truncated and rounded off obtusely, sealed on half a very oblate spheroid. [Please select]
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Archimedes developed the proportions necessary for effecting this comparison, in his treatises on the sphere and cylinder, the spheroid and conoid, and in his work on the measure of the circle. [Please select]
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