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Ellipsoid Of Revolution

Definition: Ellipsoid Of Revolution

Ellipsoid Of Revolution

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Ellipsoid Of Revolution

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

= ellipsoid.It is so named from the fact that it can be formed by revolving an ellipse about one of its axes. (references)

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Synonym: Ellipsoid Of Revolution

Synonym: spheroid (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ellipsoid Of Revolution

English words defined with "ellipsoid of revolution": Oblate ellipsoid, OblongumProlate ellipsoid, Prolatum. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ellipsoid of revolution": geoidInternational Ellipsoid of 1930oblate spheroidprolate spheroidreference ellipsoid. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: Ellipsoid Of Revolution


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 6C 69 70 73 6F 69 64      4F 66      52 65 76 6F 6C 75 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110000 01110011 01101111 01101001 01100100 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010010 01100101 01110110 01101111 01101100 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#112 &#115 &#111 &#105 &#100 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#82 &#101 &#118 &#111 &#108 &#117 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 006C 0069 0070 0073 006F 0069 0064      004F 0066      0052 0065 0076 006F 006C 0075 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39787875828581757024972252718881788786758180

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