ellipsoidal
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lɪpˈsɔɪd adjective
pertaining to or having the form of an ellipsoid.
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ellipsoid (ɪˈlɪpsɔɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a. a geometric surface, symmetrical about the three coordinate axes, whose plane sections are ellipses or circles. Standard equation: x²/a² + y²/b² + z²/c² = 1, where ±a, ±b, ±c are the intercepts on the x-, y-, and z- axes | |
| b. a solid having this shape: the earth is an ellipsoid | |
| ellipsoidal | |
| —adj | |
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Ellipsoidal
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example sentences
At maturity, beaked, ellipsoidal capsules fill with minute seeds.
It was elongated during the spreading of the graben and evolved from a circular to an ellipsoidal form.
Ellipsoidal height is the sum of elevation and geoid height.
Accuracy of ellipsoidal heights determined by these observations vary, and are sometimes less than third-order.
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