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Definition of Egg-shaped
1. Adjective. Rounded like an egg.
Similar to: Rounded
Derivative terms: Ellipse, Ellipticity, Ellipse, Oval, Ovoid
Definition of Egg-shaped
1. Adjective. Having the shape of an egg. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Egg-shaped
Literary usage of Egg-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Sewerage Practice by Harrison Prescott Eddy, Leonard. Metcalf (1914)
"For sewers under 5 ft. in diameter the circular or egg-shaped forms are usually
... egg-shaped Section.—In combined sewers where the dry- flow of sewage is ..."
2. Sewerage and Sewage Treatment by Harold Eaton Babbitt (1922)
"For example let it be required to determine the rate of flow in a 54-inch egg-shaped
sewer on a slope of 0 . 001 when n=.015. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1893)
"... or egg-shaped. The problem of the development of the figure of the hen's egg
is one that may be very easily dealt with mathematically. ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"egg-shaped SEWERS 16. Variation of Flow In Storm-Water Sewers. ... General Form
of Egg-Shaped Sewers.—The general form of the cross-section of an egg-shaped ..."
5. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"Styles swelled at the base. inversely heart-shaped or egg-shaped, equal. ...
Fruit egg-shaped, covered with short incurved bristles. ..."
6. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"We take a spheroidal piece of wood, a nearly egg-shaped piece, as shown in the
diagram, and laying it with its long axis horizontal, apply two horizontal ..."
7. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"In shape the leaves of weeds vary greatly, some of the forms being ovate or
egg-shaped; lanceolate, narrower and more elongate than ovate and tapering to a ..."
8. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"The dimensions of egg-shaped sewers are given in terms of the inside ...
The Phillips Metropolitan Standard (English) egg-shaped sewer has an inside height ..."
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