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- Spheroid - n. - A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.
- Spheroidal - a. - Having the form of a spheroid.
- Spheroidic - a. - Alt. of Spheroidical
- Spheroidical - a. - See Spheroidal.
- Spheroidicity - n. - Alt. of Spheroidity
- Spheroidity - n. - The quality or state of being spheroidal.
- Ellipticity - n. - Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is /.