spheroid
Example Sentences
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Additional testing was performed using three-dimensional tumor spheroid models, which more closely resemble real tumors than standard cell cultures.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
But because the earth is an oblate spheroid, the sea level at the Equator is some 14 miles farther from the center of the earth than the sea level at the North Pole.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2023
The most memorable of these came at the start of the dinner, when a server floated a perfectly spheroid, aromatic-smoke-filled bubble into the air in front of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Texas, West Texas and Texas Tech surely reserve their foremost excitement for when the ball is a prolate spheroid.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019
Never mind that James Hutton had shown long before that any such static arrangement would eventually result in a featureless spheroid as erosion leveled the bumps and filled in the divots.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Space Science (Astronomy) - High School
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