Associations to the word «Spheroid»

Wiktionary

SPHEROID, noun. A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.
SPHEROID, adjective. Of a shape similar to a squashed sphere.

Dictionary definition

SPHEROID, noun. 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".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky