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Definition of Spheroidal

1. Adjective. Having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid.

Definition of Spheroidal

1. a. Having the form of a spheroid.

Definition of Spheroidal

1. Adjective. Like a spheroid. Roughly spherical, approximately round, roughly ball shaped. ¹

2. Noun. A spheroid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spheroidal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Spheroidal

1. Having the form of a spheroid. Spheroid"ally, Spheroidal state, the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees below ebullition, and without actual contact with the heated surface, a phenomenon due to the repulsive force of heat, the intervention of a cushion of nonconducting vapor, and the cooling effect of evaporation. Origin: Cf. F. Spheroidal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spheroidal

Literary usage of Spheroidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"Thus, with water, the spheroidal state is produced when the plate is at a ... Water, in the spheroidal state, evaporates much more slowly than at the ..."

2. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1865)
"Tims with water, the spheroidal state is produced when the plate is at a ... Water, in the spheroidal state, evaporates much more slowly than at the ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"The grains when dry are considerably elongated, being prolate-spheroidal in shape, but when wet they swell up and become spherical. ..."

4. Smithsonian Geographical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Robert Simpson Woodward (1906)
"SOLUTION OF spheroidal TRIANGLES. The data for solution of a spheroidal triangle ordinarily presented are the measured angles and the length of one side. ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1877)
"(198) spheroidal State produced Ъу Heat.—Much attention has of late years been excited by a phenomenon tiret described by Leidenfrost, and which has been ..."

6. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1867)
"Besides this repulsive action occasioned by heat, the other causes which may be mentioned, as tending to produce the assumption of the spheroidal condition ..."

7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1872)
"Besides this repulsive action occasioned by heat, the other causes which may be mentioned, as tending to produce the assumption of the spheroidal condition ..."

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