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spheroid
[ sfeer-oid ]
adjective
spheroid
/ ˈsfɪərɔɪd /
adjective
- shaped like but not exactly a sphere
spheroid
/ sfîr′oid′ /
- A three-dimensional geometric surface generated by rotating an ellipse on or about one of its axes.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Left to their own devices, spheroid xenobots could generally create only one more generation before dying out, the researchers found.
The live feed appears on a spheroid TV that looks like an astronaut’s helmet and directly faces the Buddha.
The tissue folded itself into a spheroid with its fibers forming a pattern like lines of longitude on Earth.
In a paper in Science Robotics, the researchers describe how they took stem cells from frog embryos and allowed them to grow into clumps of several thousand cells called spheroids.
Next you might find the volume for a half-cone or a spheroid.
Although we have for convenience termed the earth a flattened spheroid, it is only such in a very general sense.
Its shape is not absolutely spherical, but spheroid—that is, flattened at the poles.
"He loves to call a football an 'illusive spheroid,'" chuckled another chap.
Pithos, pith′os, n. a large spheroid Greek earthenware vase.
The spores of this species are spheroid-tetrahedral, the three radiating angles marked with slender vittæ, or bands.
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