spheroid

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1. spheroid - Noun

2. spheroid - Adjective

Meaning

A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.

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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know. Steven Pinker

it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid Source: Internet

A spheroid looks like a round pillow that is somewhat flattened. Source: Internet

A rotating star in hydrostatic equilibrium is an oblate spheroid up to a certain (critical) angular velocity. Source: Internet

Because of its rapid rotation, the planet's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). Source: Internet

His prediction that the Earth should be shaped as an oblate spheroid was later vindicated by other scientists. Source: Internet

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