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ellipsoidal

[ih-lip-soid-l, el-ip-, ee-lip-] / ɪ lɪpˈsɔɪd l, ˌɛl ɪp-, ˌi lɪp- /
ADJECTIVE
elliptical
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This is also sometimes called an ellipsoidal joint.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

We can see that the virions are spherical or ellipsoidal, with “crowns” of spikes on their surfaces.

From Scientific American Jun. 25, 2020

The ellipsoidal shape, roughly 15 feet across and suspended from the ceiling, is composed of 230 chrome-plated aluminum rods poking out from a mirrored sphere, about a third of them tipped with electric lights.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 19, 2018

If you make the particles elongated or ellipsoidal, they deform the air-water interface, which causes the particles to strongly attract one another.

From US News Aug. 18, 2011

The 19th century witnessed the culmination of the ellipsoidal era of geodesy, but the rapid accumulation of data made possible a better approximation to the figure of the earth by the geoid.

From Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 by Lenzen, Victor Fritz




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