ELLIPSOID OF REVOLUTION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes

Example:

it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid

Synonyms:

ellipsoid of revolution; spheroid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("ellipsoid of revolution" is a kind of...):

round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)

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