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geoid

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdʒiːɔɪd/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈd͡ʒiˌɔɪd/
  • CMU ARPABET: JH IY1 OY0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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noun

Meaning 1

The shape, extending through landmasses (continents, etc.), that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geography, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From German Geoid (“geoid”), analysable as geo- + -oid.

Across languages

Translations

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: gjeoidi — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Arabic: مُجَسَّم أَرْضِيّ (mujassam ʔarḍiyy) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Armenian: գեոիդ (geoid) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Asturian: xeoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Belarusian: геоід (hjeóid) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Bulgarian: геоид (geoid) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Catalan: geoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大地水準面 /大地水准面 (dàdì shuǐzhǔnmiàn) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Czech: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Danish: geoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Dutch: geoïde — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Esperanto: geoido — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Estonian: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Finnish: geoidi — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Finnish: geoidipinta — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • French: géoïde — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Galician: xeoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Georgian: გეოიდი (geoidi) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • German: Geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Greek: γεωειδές (geoeidés) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Hebrew: גאואיד — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Hungarian: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Icelandic: jarðsporvala — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Ido: geoido — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Indonesian: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Italian: geoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Japanese: ジオイド (jioido) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Kazakh: геоид (geoid) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Korean: 지오이드 (jioideu) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Luxembourgish: Geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Macedonian: геоид (geoid) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Norwegian: geoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: geoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Persian: زمینواره — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Polish: geoida — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Portuguese: geoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Romanian: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Russian: гео́ид (geóid) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Serbo-Croatian: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Slovak: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Slovene: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Spanish: geoide — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Swedish: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Thai: จีออยด์ — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Turkish: geoit — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Ukrainian: геоїд (heojid) — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Uzbek: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Vietnamese: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
  • Zazaki: geoid — surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation
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