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Definition: Spheroid |
SpheroidNoun1. 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. |
Date "spheroid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Etymology: Spheroid \Sphe"roid\, noun. [Latin spheroides ball-like, spherical, Greek sphere + form: compare to French sph['e]ro["i]de.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | An ellipsoid; a figure resembling a sphere. Also called ellipsoid or ellipsoid of revolution from the fact that it can be formed by revolving an ellipse about one of its axes. If the shorter axis is used as the axis of revolution, an oblate spheroid results, and if the longer axis is used, a prolate spheroid results. The earth is approximately an oblate spheroid. (references) |
Geography | A solid body formed by the revolution of an ellipse about its axis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | Mathematical figure closely approaching the geoid in form and size and used as a surface of reference for geodetic surveys. A reference spheroid or ellipsoid is a spheroid determined by revolving an ellipse about its shorter (polar) axis and used as a base for geodetic surveys of a large section of the Earth (such as the Clarke spheroid of 1866 which is used for geodetic surveys in the United States). (references) |
Metallurgy | A small sphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | In general, any figure differing but little from a sphere. In geodesy, a mathematical figure closely approaching the geoid in form and size, andused as a surface of reference for geodetic surveys. (references) |
Physics | Resembling a sphere, but with 1 axis elongated. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The sphere is a special case of the spheroid in which the generating ellipse is a circle.
A spheroid is a special case of an ellipsoid where two of the three major axes are equal.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spheroid."
Synonym: SpheroidSynonym: ellipsoid of revolution (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rotundity | Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spheroid |
| English words defined with "spheroid": Ellipsoid of revolution ♦ genus Melocactus ♦ Hemispheroid ♦ Melocactus ♦ Oblatum, Oblongum ♦ -oid ♦ prolate, Prolatum ♦ Semispheroidal ♦ watermelon-shaped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spheroid": deflection of the vertical ♦ experiencia de referencia ♦ geodetic coordinates, geodetic datum, geodetic latitude, geodetic longitude, geoid ♦ Methanosarcinaceae ♦ oblate spheroid ♦ prolate spheroid ♦ spherical coordinates, spheroidal excess, Surface of the Earth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spheroid": Hemispheroid. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Title page of "La Figure de la Terre," by Pierre Bouguer, 1749. Bouguer was a famous surveyor and geophysicist who surveyed an arc of the meridian near the equator in South America and helped establish that the Earth is an oblate spheroid, in agreement with Sir Isaac Newton's views. Library Call Number QB291 .B58 1749. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
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| "Spheroid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spheroid" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spheroid": oblate spheroid ♦ prolate spheroid ♦ spheroid joint. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spheroid | 18 |
oblate spheroid | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spheroid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sferoid (sphericity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الكرواني جسم شبيه بالكرة, العظم الإسفيني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сфероид, леко сплеснато кълбо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 球". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sféroid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sphaeroid (spheroidal), sfaeroid, lille kugle, kugleformet (globose, globular, nodular, spherical, spheroidal), ellipsoide (ellipsoid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sferoïed (spheroidal), sferoïd (spheroidal, spherule), bolvormig (bulbiform, bulb-shaped, globose, globular, spheroidal), bolletje (roll). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sferoidi (spherule), pieni pallo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sphéroïde (spheroidal, spherule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sphäroid (spheroidal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφαιροειδήσ (globular, orbicular, orbiculate, spheroidal), σφαιρίδιο (globule, pellet), ελλειψοειδές εκ περιστροφής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szteroid (steroid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sferoide (spheroidal, spherule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 回転楕円" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいて" え"たい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | co-chruinnoid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eroidsphay esferóide (spheroidal). (various references) sferoidal (spheroidal), sferoid. (various references) сфероид. (various references) sferoid, obrtni elipsoid. (various references) esferoide. (various references) sfärulit, sfärolit. (various references) รูปกลมรี. (various references) küreye benzer (spheroidal, spheroidic, spheroidical), küremsi cisim, küremsi (spheroidal, spheroidic, spheroidical). (various references) сфероїд. (various references) hình tựa cầu, hình phỏng cầu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spheroid": spheroidal, spheroidally, spheroids. (additional references) | |
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"Spheroid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epheboi, ophiuroid, phugoid, sphereoid, spheriod, sphero. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spheroid" (pronounced sfi"roy'd) |
| 3 | -r oy' d | android, corticosteroid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: periods. | |
-2 letters: dopers, dopier, dories, ephods, ephori, ephors, hiders, hoised, hopers, hordes, horsed, hosier, pedros, period, perish, pished, poised, poiser, posher, prides, prised, prosed, redips, reship, reshod, shored, spider, spired, spored. | |
-3 letters: dipso, doers, doper, dopes, dorps, doser, dries, drips, drops, eidos, ephod, ephor, heirs, herds, heros, hider, hides, hired, hires, hoers, hoise. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aphorised, spheroids, worshiped. | |
+2 letters: diaphorase, editorship, endorphins, eriophyids, hydropsies, hypodermis, ideographs, priesthood, prophesied, repolished, rhapsodies, rhapsodize, spheroidal, worshipped. | |
+3 letters: chiropodies, comradeship, diaphorases, diaphoreses, diaphoresis, dichroscope, drosophilae, dystrophies, editorships, hippodromes, hyperploids, hypodermics, orthopedics, orthopedist, prehominids, premonished, priesthoods, pyrethroids, radiophones, rhapsodized, rhapsodizes, soldiership. | |
+4 letters: comradeships, demographics, demographies, diaphoretics, dichroscopes, diphtheroids, directorship, discographer, endomorphies, endomorphism, haloperidols, heteroploids, horsewhipped, hydropathies, hydrospheric, hyperboloids, hypodermises, ideographies, impoverished, orthopaedics, orthopedists, overlordship, photoperiods, polyhedrosis, soldierships, spheroidally, spinsterhood. | |
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