An egg is more or less a prolate spheroid, and the difference between it and a sphere is quite obvious visually. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
It looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
'The effect of graviational radiation on the secular stability of the Maclaurin spheroid', Astrophys. From Wordnik.com. [Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Autobiography] Reference
At the flat end of the spheroid was a small ring of a pink colour, from which ran lines forming the ribs, which supported the sides of the animal. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
At that precise moment we shall leave our spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
He signaled to Sir Timothy, once more the spheroid flew. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
And it was a spheroid-type tank that had a liquid in it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2003] Reference
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: No Joy in Mudville] Reference
PEARL is a white, black, blue, gray, or off-white sphere or spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [The Lore of Gloranthan Gems and Near-Gems by Martin R. Crim Part II] Reference
Most of the chamber was filled with a gigantic spheroid of nightmare black. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid flattened at the poles. From Wordnik.com. [June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big] Reference
He prodded at the vitreous spheroid and rolled it across the table with his thumb. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
There was a lime green pyramid, a pink cube, and a many-faced spheroid of sky blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
A fowl weighing seven pounds, stuffed with truffles, so that it has become a spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
What kind of spectacle would its hidden hemisphere present to our terrestrial spheroid?. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
A vast, brilliant spheroid with flanges like convulsed meridians; drive units projecting within. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
Oblate: flattened; applied to a spheroid of which the diameter is shortened at two opposite ends. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Sustained heavy bombardment would have collapsed them, making the spheroid still rougher than we see. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The counselor looks at the polished black agate spheroid on the shimmering surface of her table-desk. From Wordnik.com. [Darksong Rising]
It was, roughly speaking, an oblong spheroid, but that made the shape of it sound simple and abstract. From Wordnik.com. [Roger MacBride]
The detached spheroid had a few knobs and projections of its own, but nothing like the crazy-quilt above. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
It is a portion of a plain gold spheroid, very thick, with a metal hook at the back to pass through the ear. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
It is easily understood that on an oblate spheroid our degrees of longitude must be shorter than on a sphere. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
He thus obtained a spheroid, the capacity of which amounted, in round numbers, to ninety thousand cubic feet. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
Perhaps then, our spheroid will rest — will be left to death — to revive some day under superior conditions!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
The ergosphere is an oblate spheroid region outside of the event horizon, where objects cannot remain stationary. From Wordnik.com. [the atomic uni-verse] Reference
It seemed grotesque by contrast, a twenty-meter spheroid warty with turrets and bays, bristly with masts and webs. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Its eye, a spheroid four feet across with a black iris, its tiny-seeming eye was on Justin and it just didn't care. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf's Children]
The figure of the Earth is that of an oblate spheroid; it is slightly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Soon the lambent disk they were closing on resolved itself into a crusted spheroid, becoming real instead of theoretical. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
Notwithstanding the theories of Professor Liedenbrock, a violent heat did at that time brood within the body of the spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
To the best of present-day knowledge the stars are in a spheroid whose longer axes are coincident with the plane of the Milky Way. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
This accordance of the mathematicians of France with those of China was another powerful reason for believing in the oblate spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
From the evolute, draw the line SF, and parallel to it, draw TW; then EW is the latitude of the point F on the surface of the spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Through countless thousands of years wind and wave have planed and scoured the planet Trenco to a geometrically perfect oblate spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
They are not perfectly round but either slightly flattened at the poles into an "oblate spheroid" or made into an oval something like a modern football. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
How he had sprinted -- back -- back -- and at the last second, reached high in the air, grabbing the soaring spheroid, and saving the game for his Alma Mater!. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
Motion produces the spheroid, and the rotation of the spheroid produces atmosphere and diversity of surface; all these variations characterize the spirit globe. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
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