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/ɪˈɫɪpsɔɪd/
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[ UK /ɪlˈɪpsɔɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˈɪpsɔɪd/ ]
NOUN
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a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles
the Earth is an ellipsoid
ADJECTIVE
- having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid
How To Use ellipsoid In A Sentence
- In addition, the ellipsoidal shape is able to intensify sunlight only when the sun is low in the sky — when the light is not so strong — and the water itself provides cooling. Apparently, rain cannot cause a forest fire « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
- In this case, the toroidal surface has become an off-axis segment of an ellipsoid.
- It was found that the maximum total force is experienced when the major axis of the ellipsoid is perpendicular to the flow and the minimum when it is aligned.
- A spherical shell of dust that falls to a gravitating body will become distended into a prolate ellipsoid. A Dark, Misleading Force
- Ellipsoidal microconidia and falcate macroconidia are formed from phialides by basipetal division; globose chlamydospores with thick walls are formed acrogenously from hyphae or by the modification of hyphal cells.
- Seed volumes were calculated as an ellipsoid of revolution from the nut length and width data obtained from literatures on dipterocarps.
- Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
- The _fourth glume_ is ellipsoidal, obtuse, chartaceous, minutely and obscurely rugulose, faintly 3-nerved, with the base somewhat thickened. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- The centers of corresponding ellipsoids are close, in agreement with well-known restrictions on the hydrogen bonding of electronegative atoms.
- Why is random packing denser for ellipsoids than for spheres?