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• 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

• Along the fairway galloped the bear, both beady eyes fixed upon the white spheroid rollicking on ahead.
• The weapon: a spheroid mass of hide, cork and yarn flung carelessly, at perhaps 70 m.
• A white spheroid rolled lazily into the 18th hole with a dull clonk.

• ellipsoid of revolution

News & Articles

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• Reed Krakoff Bought His Own Label From Coach
  The man with the legendary spheroid toilet now owns one more thing. Reed Krakoff, aided by some nameless investors, has purchased his eponymous label from Coach, WWD reports. This is Krakoff's latest step in extricating his brand from the massive company he's helmed for sixteen years. When he announced his ... More »        
  July 30, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• John Heisman in Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription)
  Answering his own question, Heisman said: "It is a prolate spheroid in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing."