Term Gallery logo

Meanings of oblate ellipsoid of revolution in anglès

rus
сплюснутый эллипсоид
portuguès
esfera oblata
català
esferoide oblat
espanyol
elipsoide oblato de revolución
Wikidata

Rotationally symmetric ellipsoid having a polar axis shorter than the diameter of the equatorial circle whose plane bisects it.

esferoide oblat
Synonyms
Examples for "oblate spheroid"
Examples for "oblate spheroid"
1
He weighed it in his hand, an oblate spheroid, difficult to serve, harder to return.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
2
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid flattened at the poles.
Wired
3
Instead, the Earth is more like an oblate spheroid.
Wired
4
The oblate spheroid assumed an archipelagic formation, melting into irregularly-placed military islands upon a sea of dust.
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
5
The creator, therefore, of a revolving solid, would make it an oblate spheroid, that figure alone admitting a perfect equilibrium.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...