spheroid
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of spheroid
1655–65; < Latin sphaeroīdēs < Greek sphairoeidḗs. See sphere, -oid
Vocabulary lists containing spheroid
Space Science (Astronomy) - High School
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The Universe and Its Stars (Cosmology) - High School
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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 ashtray part is a nearly 4-pound square of pleasingly smooth, white concrete with a spheroid indentation in the center and a notch in two opposite corners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
The live feed appears on a spheroid TV that looks like an astronaut’s helmet and directly faces the Buddha.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
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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