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ellipsoidal
[ ih-lip-soid-l, el-ip-, ee-lip- ]
Word History and Origins
Origin of ellipsoidal1
Example Sentences
We can see that the virions are spherical or ellipsoidal, with “crowns” of spikes on their surfaces.
They give the mountain’s “ellipsoidal” height — the height of the summit above a smoothed geometric model of the Earth.
The ellipsoidal shape, roughly 15 feet across and suspended from the ceiling, is composed of 230 chrome-plated aluminum rods poking out from a mirrored sphere, about a third of them tipped with electric lights.
However, these models do not account for both a polar and an ellipsoidal component being present and influencing each other.
It sits in a spherical or ellipsoidal liquid-filled chamber lined with sensory hairs.
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