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spheroid

adj

Etymology

From sphere + -oid.

  1. derived from sphere
  2. inherited from spere
  3. suffixed as spheroid — “sphere + oid”

Definitions

  1. Of a shape similar to a squashed sphere.

  2. A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or…

    A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.

    • UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer-shaped) or prolate (cigar-shaped) spheroids.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spheroid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA