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    ELLIPSOID OF REVOLUTION

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axesplay

    Example:

    it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid

    Synonyms:

    ellipsoid of revolution; spheroid

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

    Hypernyms ("ellipsoid of revolution" is a kind of...):

    round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)

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