The Earth is an irregularly shaped ellipsoid.
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Ellipsoid
/ɪˈlɪp.sɔɪd/
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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.
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Polarizability can be imagined as a three-dimensional ellipsoid centred on the centre of the molecule, as shown in Figure 10.4.
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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.
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