The Earth is an irregularly shaped ellipsoid.
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Ellipsoid
//ɪˈlɪp.sɔɪd//
Synonyms for "ellipsoid" (43 found)
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26 translations across 21 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- elipsoide noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Bengali
1 entries- উপবৃত্তাকার noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Catalan
1 entries- el·lipsoide noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 橢球 /椭球 noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Czech
1 entries- elipsoid noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Finnish
4 entries- ellipsoidinen adj (having the shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis)
- elliptinen adj (of or pertaining to an ellipse)
- soikea adj (having the shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis)
- ellipsoidi noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
French
1 entries- ellipsoïde noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Galician
1 entries- elipsoide noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
German
2 entries- Ellipsoid noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
- Ellipsoide noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Hungarian
1 entries- ellipszoid noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Icelandic
1 entries- sporvala noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Italian
1 entries- ellissoide noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Kazakh
1 entries- эллипсоид noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Portuguese
1 entries- elipsoide noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Romanian
1 entries- elipsoid noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Russian
1 entries- эллипсо́ид noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Spanish
1 entries- elipsoide noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Swedish
1 entries- ellipsoid noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Thai
1 entries- ทรงรี noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Vietnamese
2 entries- elipxoit noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
- ê-líp-xô-ít noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Zazaki
1 entries- elipsoid noun (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular)
Sample sentences
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While the Earth appears to be round when viewed from the vantage point of space, it is actually closer to an ellipsoid.
Source: tatoeba (6708739)
Polarizability can be imagined as a three-dimensional ellipsoid centred on the centre of the molecule, as shown in Figure 10.4.
Source: wiktionary
Because only ellipsoids of rotation have been adopted in practical geodesy and surveying and triaxial ellipsoids have been limited to theoretical studies, we will use the term ellipsoid for brevity to mean ellipsoid of rotation.
Source: wiktionary
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