Significados de oblate spheroid em inglês

He weighed it in his hand, an oblate spheroid, difficult to serve, harder to return.

The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid flattened at the poles.

Instead, the Earth is more like an oblate spheroid.

The oblate spheroid assumed an archipelagic formation, melting into irregularly-placed military islands upon a sea of dust.

The creator, therefore, of a revolving solid, would make it an oblate spheroid, that figure alone admitting a perfect equilibrium.

He showed that the earth must be an oblate spheroid, formed by the revolution of an ellipse round its lesser axis.

And she pointed to an oblate spheroid, the colour of brick, but smoother, which lay on a plate near the gas-stove.

Its oblate spheroid shape has long vexed cartographers, who must often distort reality to make it fit into a functional, two-dimensional survey.

Our conception of ultimate matter is reduced to that of an oblate spheroid described by the revolution of an ellipse on its own minor axis!

Some are oblate spheroids with the aperture near the top, some are purse-like and suspended, and some are regular cups.