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spheroidal

/sfi-roid-l/US // sfɪˈrɔɪd l //UK // (sfɪəˈrɔɪdəl) //

球状体,球状的,球状,球体

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
    • : shaped like a spheroid; approximately spherical.

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Examples

  • We shall also assume that the earth is spheroidal, and that bodies have a tendency towards its centre.

  • Sometimes it is seen in very regular spheroidal masses, which contain a nucleus of radiated quartz.

  • In this type the body is spheroidal and invested in a test or shell composed of regularly arranged plates closely united together.

  • The earth is flattened, in other words its figure is spheroidal.

  • Every cell generally contains within it a denser, normally spheroidal, body known as the nucleus.