adj
Meaning 1
Shaped like an ellipse; elliptical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
ellipsoid
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Meaning 2
Of or pertaining to an ellipse; elliptic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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adj
Meaning 3
Having the tridimensional shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is a quadric with equation x2/a2 + y2/b2 + z2/c2 = 1.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
Such a surface used as a model of the shape of the earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
Examples
- Here the geoid is thirty meters below the ellipsoid.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ellipsoidal, spheroidal
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Earth is an ellipsoid
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plane figure, two-dimensional figure
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English ellipse Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English ellipsoid From ellipse + -oid.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: elliptinen — of or pertaining to an ellipse
- Finnish: soikea — having the shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis
- Finnish: ellipsoidinen — having the shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis
- Asturian: elipsoide — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Bengali: উপবৃত্তাকার (upobrittakar) — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Catalan: el·lipsoide — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Chinese Mandarin: 橢球 /椭球 (tuǒqiú) — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Czech: elipsoid — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Finnish: ellipsoidi — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- French: ellipsoïde — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Galician: elipsoide — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- German: Ellipsoid — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- German: Ellipsoide — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Hungarian: ellipszoid — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Icelandic: sporvala — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Italian: ellissoide — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Kazakh: эллипсоид (éllipsoid) — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Portuguese: elipsoide — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Romanian: elipsoid — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Russian: эллипсо́ид (ellipsóid) — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Spanish: elipsoide — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Swedish: ellipsoid — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Thai: ทรงรี (song-rii) — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Vietnamese: ê-líp-xô-ít — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Vietnamese: elipxoit — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
- Zazaki: elipsoid — surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular
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