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Ellipsoid   /ɪlˈɪpsɔɪd/   Listen
Ellipsoid

noun
1.
A surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles.



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"Ellipsoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... certainty is much more attainable than among distant stars, we have seen that astronomers of the very highest rank are by no means agreed as to its diameter. Its precise form is equally difficult to determine. Newton showed that an ellipsoid of revolution should differ from a sphere by a compression of 1/230. The mean of a number of varying measurements of arcs, in five different places, would give 1/299. The pendulum measurement differs very considerably from both, and "no ...
— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson


Words linked to "Ellipsoid" :   plane figure, two-dimensional figure, rounded


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