Link Centre Dictionary

ellipsoid

el·lip·soid

UK/ɪˈlɪp.sɔɪd/ US/ɪˈlɪp.sɔɪd/ fairly common
noun (1) adjective (1)

noun

1.

a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles

  • “the Earth is an ellipsoid”

adjective

1.

Origin

From ellipse + -oid.

Phrases

  • Bessel ellipsoid
  • ellipsoid geodesic
  • ellipsoid method
  • ellipsoid of revolution
  • ellipsoid packing
  • Hayford ellipsoid
  • Jacobi ellipsoid
  • scalene ellipsoid

Related words

Word family

Broader terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.