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US
/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
- Water drops are usually ellipsoidal in shape and are less able than a sphere to concentrate light. Apparently, rain cannot cause a forest fire « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
- 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
- Its shape resembles that of a prolate ellipsoid.
- Hydrodynamic and small angle x-ray scattering measurements show that plant MSP has an extended, prolate ellipsoid shape in solution.
- Nucleosome core particles are represented by oblate ellipsoids; their interaction potential has been parameterized by a comparison with data from liquid crystals of nucleosome solutions.
- This paper discussed the method of establishing local independent coordinate system through Ellipsoid transformation.
- The test proves that, the expectation body principle is superior to ellipsoid body principle.
- In general, the strain ellipsoids have oblate strain symmetry with some data points in the prolate field.
- This paper discussed the method of establishing local independent coordinate system through Ellipsoid transformation.
- To study the effect of gravity eccentricity on the ranges, the expression of gravity was educed using spherical harmonic function when the earth is considered as an normal ellipsoid or sphere.