ellipsoidal
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ellipsoidal
Example Sentences
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We can see that the virions are spherical or ellipsoidal, with “crowns” of spikes on their surfaces.
From Scientific American
They give the mountain’s “ellipsoidal” height — the height of the summit above a smoothed geometric model of the Earth.
From Washington Post
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
However, these models do not account for both a polar and an ellipsoidal component being present and influencing each other.
From Nature
It sits in a spherical or ellipsoidal liquid-filled chamber lined with sensory hairs.
From Scientific American
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