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spheroid

/sfeer-oid/US // ˈsfɪər ɔɪd //UK // (ˈsfɪərɔɪd) //

球状体,圆球体,球体,球形体

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : spheroidal.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inround
Forms: spheroids

Examples

  • The live feed appears on a spheroid TV that looks like an astronaut’s helmet and directly faces the Buddha.

  • The tissue folded itself into a spheroid with its fibers forming a pattern like lines of longitude on Earth.

  • In a paper in Science Robotics, the researchers describe how they took stem cells from frog embryos and allowed them to grow into clumps of several thousand cells called spheroids.

  • Next you might find the volume for a half-cone or a spheroid.

  • Although we have for convenience termed the earth a flattened spheroid, it is only such in a very general sense.

  • Its shape is not absolutely spherical, but spheroid—that is, flattened at the poles.

  • "He loves to call a football an 'illusive spheroid,'" chuckled another chap.

  • Pithos, pith′os, n. a large spheroid Greek earthenware vase.

  • The spores of this species are spheroid-tetrahedral, the three radiating angles marked with slender vittæ, or bands.