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spheroid

sphe·roid

US/ˈsfɪˌrɔɪd/ uncommon

noun

1.

a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes

  • “it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid”
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Origin

From sphere + -oid.

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