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SPHEROID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("spheroid" is a kind of...):
round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)
Derivation:
spheroidal (having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid)
