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- n a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles
the Earth is an ellipsoid - s having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid
- Built up in layers inside wooden framing, it took the shape of a doorknob the size of a two-car garage a flattened graphite ellipsoid 25 ft.
- This establishes that the earth is not a sphere but an ellipsoid, slightly flattened at the poles.
- They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather .