ellipsoidal
- adjective
- /ɪˌlɪpˈsɔɪdəl/
- Specialized
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elipsoidal
- Verschuur showed that the shell could appear ellipsoidal rather than spherical, more like an egg than a golf ball.
Examples
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In geometry class, we learned that an ellipsoidal shape is similar to that of a stretched sphere.
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Bottom line is this is you actually end up with an SDP that solves the the ellipsoidal worst case least squares problem.
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It has an ellipsoidal cross section.
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Thousands of thin ellipsoidal lines representing orbital paths filled the screen.
Fiction book (2001) -
Mimas (left) is just large enough to have relaxed into an ellipsoidal shape.
Academic text (1996) -
The number of stars per unit volume was found to decrease in all directions from the center, with the surfaces of constant density being ellipsoidal in shape.
Academic text (1991) -
Because we had plane waves coming into the paraboloidal reflector and ellipsoidal refractor respectively.
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You see this kind of grid of an accretion disk is this pointed at us more, This one is more edge on and that's determined by these ellipsoidal variations.
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A kitchen, where two humans cracked several white ellipsoidal objects and poured their proteinaceous contents into a bowl to destroy them and make a sacrificial meal called an omelet.
Fiction book (2000) -
They expected the wells in their three-dimensional system to be ellipsoidal because of the asymmetry between their vertical beam and the other three beams, and indeed the Raman resonances were at slightly different frequencies depending on the probe beam's orientation.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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8.2
Having the shape of a stretched sphere with round or oval sides
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7.6
Having the shape of a ball or an egg and almost round
How Spherical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ellipsoidal comes from ellipse, which originally meant 'falling short' of a circle. Think of an ellipse as a stretched circle and an ellipsoid as that shape in three dimensions, like a rugby ball or the slightly flattened shape of Earth, so ellipsoidal means 'like an oval 3D shape'.