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ellipsoid Elipsoid ellipsoid plane section ellipsoidal ellipsoids

A surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles WordNet 3.0

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A surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

An ellipsoid is a surface that can be obtained from a sphere by deforming it by means of directional scalings, or more generally, of an affine transformation. Wikipedia

Quadric surface that looks like a deformed sphere Wikidata

A three-dimensional geometric figure resembling a flattened sphere. OmegaWiki

A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is a quadric with equation x2/a2 + y2/b2 + z2/c2 = 0. Wiktionary

Surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular. Wiktionary (translation)

The Earth is an ellipsoid WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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