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English

Noun

spheroid

A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.
* "UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer shaped) or prolate (cigar shaped) spheroids"

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spheroid \Sphe"roid\, n. [L. spheroides ball-like, spherical,
Gr. ???; ???? sphere + e'i^dos form: cf. F. sph['e]ro["i]de.]
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.
[1913 Webster]

Oblate spheroid, Prolate spheroid. See Oblate,
Prolate, and Ellipsoid.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet spheroid
n : a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one
of its axes; "it looked like a sphere but on closer
examination I saw it was really a spheroid" [syn: {ellipsoid
of revolution}]