spheroid

How To Use spheroid In A Sentence

• Let the term geoid apply to the natural irregular surface of the earth and the term spheroid to the ideal regular sur - face of the geodesist which coincides nearly with sealevel and is necessarily a level surface. Transactions - American Philosophical Society
• The adult ovary may present marked deviations from its typical form, sometimes being unusually long, spheroidal, flattened, triangular, crescentric, or otherwise irregular.
• The code was validated by comparing the computed forces and torques with the analytic solutions for a hemisphere and sphere in point contact with the wall and also computations for axisymmetric spherical caps and spheroids.
• In this study, the phototactic behavior in the spheroidal, multicellular volvocine green alga Volvox rousseletii (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) was analyzed. BioMed Central - Latest articles
• An oblate spheroid is a surface of revolution obtained by rotating an ellipse about its minor axis
• The spherules were previously interpreted as microfossils (Vallenia sp.) because of their spheroidal shapes and inclusions of carbonaceous matter.
• Returning to the University of Breslau he submitted a dissertation on geodesics of spheroids in 1862.
• This experimental system was chosen because the visible light-induced changes in oxygen concentration sensitized by various exogenous photodynamic agents in spheroids have been characterized previously.
• The earth is an oblate spheroid - a sphere with flattened poles and a slight bulge the equator.
• It looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid.