Crossword-Solution: ELLIPSOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ellipsoid | n. | A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a). |
| Ellipsoid | a. | Alt. of Ellipsoidal |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ELLIPSOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Oval-shaped figure | 1 answer |
| a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | 1 answer |
| surface whose plane sections are ellipses or circles | 1 answer |
| Oval | 8 answers |
| GEOMETRIC solid | 9 answers |
| Geometrical figure | 13 answers |
| GEOMETRIC shape | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ELLIPSOID (5)
The roof was the long half of an ellipsoid, and the opening in it was over one of the foci of the ellipse of the floor.
But now while the speed of rotation still increases (The mathematician familiar with Jacobi's ellipsoid will find that this is correct, although in the usual mode of exposition, alluded to above in a footnote, the speed diminishes.), the equator tends to bulge outwards at two diametrically opposite points and to be flattened midway between these protuberances.
Its form is that of an ellipsoid, with a major axis 26 millimetres in length, while the minor axis measures 11 millimetres.
There were symptoms of an approaching typhoon—a rapid fall of the barometer, a disappearance of vapor, large clouds of ellipsoid form clinging to a copper sky, and, on the opposite horizon, long streaks of carmine on a slate-colored field, with a large sector quite clear in the north.
The paths traced out by the pole of this axis on the _invariable plane_ and on the _central ellipsoid_ form interesting subjects of mathematical investigation.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1982–2010).