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spheroid

(sfeer -oid) See ellipsoid.
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spheroid

[′sfir‚ȯid]
(mathematics)
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[1] While similar to dwarf elliptical galaxies in appearance and properties, dwarf spheroidal galaxies are in general approximately spherical in shape and have a lower luminosity.
The three-dimensional scattered magnetic and electric fields for each n = 0,1,2,3 admit closed-type forms via infinite series expansions in view of spheroidal eigenfunctions [14,15].
The shape varies from prolate spheroidal, subprolate to prolate.
Heart-shaped leaves are 5 cm diameter with palmate venation; staminate flowers show 2 or 3 individual flowers in the apical bud (Dehgan & Webster, 1979), and the pollen grains are spheroidal of 58 [micro]m in diameter inaperturate (Bahadur et al., 2013).
Considering a representative elastic solid cube with spheroidal microvoids and circular microcracks, see Figure 3.
The pollen shape of Cornaceae changes between spheroidal and prolate (Erdtman, 1952; Stafford and Heath, 1991; Perveen and Qaiser, 2002), and its aperture type is tricolporate (Chao, 1954; Wodehouse, 1959).
The proposed approximation is based on Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions (PSWF) of order zero.
In polar view, they were semi-angular, prolate and spheroidal (Plate 1f, 1g).
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