Spheroid (Noun)
Meaning
A shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes; "it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid".
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The planet's slightly flattened shape was a spheroid, resulting from the rotation of the slightly elliptical form around its axis.
- A spheroid can be formed by revolving an ellipse around its major axis, which is precisely how most footballs are designed.
- In geometry, a spheroid can be categorized into one of two types: prolate or oblate, depending on its degree of flattening.
- One clear difference between a spheroid and a perfect sphere is that a spheroid has unequal axes while the sphere has three equal axes.
- Researchers classified the unique crystal formations found deep in the mine as a combination of cylinders and intersecting spheroids.