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spheroid - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'spheroid' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Spheroid [ n.]
- A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.

Meaning of 'spheroid' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . spheroid [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes
Example in sentence:
  • it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid