Crossword-Solution: ELLIPSOIDS
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| Compressed spheres. | 1 answer |
| Three-dimensional geometric figures | 1 answer |
| Geometric figures | 11 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 ELLIPSOIDS (5)
Now consider the stability of the system, we have seen that the spheroid with a slow rotation, which forms our starting-point, was slightly less stable than the sphere, and as we proceed through the family of ever flatter ellipsoids the stability continues to diminish.
The circular cylinders are exactly analogous with our planetary spheroids, and the elliptic ones with the Jacobian ellipsoids.
Accordingly it is reasonable to adopt the hypothesis that the system consists of a pair of elongated ellipsoids, with their longest axes pointed towards one another.
Obviously if the stars had been assumed to be ellipsoids they would have been found to overlap, as was the case for RR Centauri.
Myers applied the theory of eclipses to the light-curve, on the hypothesis that the stars are elongated ellipsoids, and he obtained the interesting results exhibited in Fig.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1955–2008).