ellipsoid (n.)

  1. a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles; the Earth is an ellipsoid'

    ellipsoid (adj.)

  1. having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid

    [ Syn: ellipsoidal , spheroidal ]

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