Word Meanings - SPHEROID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Oblate spheroid, Prolate spheroid. See Oblate, Prolate, and Ellipsoid.

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• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• FIGURE
  1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• SOLIDIFY
  To become solid; to harden.
• ELLIPSOID
  A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 . Note: The ellipsoid has three principal plane sections, a, b, and c, each at right angles to the other two, and each dividing the solid into two equal and symmetrical
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• SPHEROIDAL
  Having the form of a spheroid. -- Sphe*roid"al*ly, adv. Spheroidal state , the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• APPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
• OBLATENESS
  The quality or state of being oblate.
• SOLIDLY
  In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
• SOLIDISM
  The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
• REVOLUTION
  The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according
• REVOLUTIONIZE
  To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.
• SOLID
  A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides. Solid of revolution. See Revolution, n., 5. (more info) 1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance
• GENERATIVE
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
• SOLIDNESS
  1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies. 2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
• REVOLUTIONIST
  One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• ELLIPSOID; ELLIPSOIDAL
  Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• SUBSPHERICAL
  Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
• UNREGENERATION
  Unregeneracy.
• ENSPHERE
  1. To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman. 2. To form into a sphere.
• REGENERATOR
  A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping,
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• DEGENERATION
  That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse,
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.