Definitions for spheroid

spheroid sphe·roid

Spelling: [sfeer-oid]
IPA: /ˈsfɪər ɔɪd/

Spheroid is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 382 anagrams from letters in spheroid (dehioprs).

Definitions for spheroid

noun

  1. a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.

adjective

  1. spheroidal.

Origin of spheroid

1655-65; Latin sphaeroīdēs Greek sphairoeidḗs. See sphere, -oid

Examples for spheroid

And while the density of the spheroid continues small, fluid friction will scarcely at all change these differences.

Indignantly he had taken his calculations, his blue prints of the spheroid, along with him.

But now suppose that instead of such a spheroid, we assume one of, say, twenty or thirty times the mass; what will then happen?

The head is spheroid, about the size of that of an ordinary pin, and smaller than that of the beef tape-worm.

There was a futile attempt to block the kick, but the spheroid sailed over the bar.

The spheroid went to the side, sailing low, and out of bounds.

It was a spheroid, of huge size, with a number of large windows set into the walls, and it was filled with machinery.

Surrounding these tubules are groups of spheroid or slightly ovoid spores from five to four millimeters in diameter.

Its shape is not absolutely spherical, but spheroid—that is, flattened at the poles.

The earth is a spheroid, and hence it pulls and is pulled by the moon with a slightly uncentric attraction.

Word Value for spheroid
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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