It appears that all 'spheroidal' galaxies have a supermassive black hole at the centre. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS magazine - The science of everything] Reference
Planet-wannabe to spheroidal objects it is evicting. From Wordnik.com. [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Or elliptical reasoning, or oblate spheroidal reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [A useful link to use when confronted with the circularity argument - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The command cabin lay near the center of the spheroidal hull. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Planet-wannabe to spheroidal objects it is converting to satellites. From Wordnik.com. [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
That does not make the spheroidal pebble the pinnacle of the art form. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference
On this line attached by a robust neck there rose an enormous spheroidal head. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
All panes of glass containing these oblate spheroidal knots familiarly known as. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
When distended, two spheroidal masses bulge laterally and anterior to the flexor tendons in. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Similarly, the diameters of flat or spheroidal colonies may vary from a few times to many hundred. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Volvoxrhodopsin, a light-regulated sensory photoreceptor of the spheroidal green alga Volvox carteri. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Mice vs Behe; the Evolution of Vision - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The glandular or spheroidal epithelium is composed of round cells or such as become angular by mutual pressure. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
But in reality, the spheroidal shell has pressure of all its contained gasses decreasing with radius including CO2. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #12 « Climate Audit] Reference
The form of this globule, as well as its extreme mobility, causes it to resemble a drop of water in a spheroidal state. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882] Reference
Case in point: The spheroidal distribution of stars in the centers of rotating disk galaxies is called the “bulge”. From Wordnik.com. [How Galaxies Choose to Relax is Their Own Damn Business] Reference
The recorded discharge parameters were obviously obtained with the spheroidal electrodes as the top loading capacitance. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Centrifugal force, Mr. Winthrop confuted the hypothesis of vortices, from this also arises the spheroidal form of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759] Reference
Capsule spheroidal, 1-7-lobed with loculicidal dehiscence, or with dessepiments formed from the turned-in edges of the valves. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Vegetative body unicellular; spheroidal, cylindrical or spirally twisted; isolated or connected in filamentous or other growth series. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The vaporizer, properly so called, is not placed directly over the fire, and for this reason the production of a spheroidal state of the liquid is avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885] Reference
Precession is a retrograde or westerly motion of the equinoctial points, caused by the attraction of the Sun, Moon, and planets on the spheroidal figure of the Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Its form should be spheroidal, large, giving an idea of capaciousness; the bag should have a soft, fine skin, and the hind part upward toward the tail be loose and elastic. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies appear to be made mostly of dark matter. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
The spheroidal condition of liquids was discovered by Leidenfrost, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference
Others are spheroidal in shape, resting upon the surface of the parched earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
All panes of glass containing those oblate spheroidal knots familiarly known as. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories] Reference
Some form enormous blocks, several toises long, and often of a spheroidal shape. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
That white spheroidal mass, with its grinning rows and serrated sutures, that is a human skull. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
These are the oldest and largest Archaean organic-walled spheroidal microfossils reported so far. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
The dressing-rooms where the spheroidal bundles were undergoing metamorphose became buzzing centres of life. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
Well-known model exhibiting the oblate spheroidal form as a consequence of spinning about a central axis. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
He understood that the earth is a round body, but saw no necessity for its being strictly spherical or spheroidal. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
The red globules appeared cleanly circular, flattened, biconcave, and without notches, indentations or spheroidal swellings. From Wordnik.com. [The Man With The Broken Ear] Reference
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