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EllipsoidEllipsoid El*lip"soid, n. [Ellipse + -oid: cf. F. ellipsoide.]
(Geom.)
A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles.
See Conoid, n., 2
(a) .
Note: The ellipsoid has three principal plane sections, a, b,
and c, each at right angles to the other two, and each
dividing the solid into two equal and symmetrical
parts. The lines of meeting of these principal sections
are the axes, or principal diameters of the ellipsoid.
The point where the three planes meet is the center.
Ellipsoid of revolution, a spheroid; a solid figure
generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its
axes. It is called a prolate spheroid, or prolatum, when
the ellipse is revolved about the major axis, and an
oblate spheroid, or oblatum, when it is revolved about the
minor axis. Ellipsoid
Ellipsoid El*lip"soid, Ellipsoidal El`lip*soi"dal, a.
Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or
ellipsoidal form.
ellipsoidConoid Co"noid, n. [Gr. ? conical; ? cone + ? from: cf. F.
cono["i]de.]
1. Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
2. (Geom.)
(a) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section
about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic
conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid,
ellipsoid, etc.
(b) A surface which may be generated by a straight line
moving in such a manner as always to meet a given
straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel
to a given plane. --Math. Dict.
Meaning of Ellipsoid from wikipedia
- 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...
- the
angle formed between the
vector perpendicular (or normal) to the
ellipsoidal surface from the point, and the
plane of the equator. Two
levels of abstraction...
- In geodesy, the
Hayford ellipsoid is a
reference ellipsoid named after the
American geodesist John
Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925),
which was
introduced in...
- The
study of
geodesics on an
ellipsoid arose in
connection with
geodesy specifically with the
solution of
triangulation networks. The
figure of the Earth...
- An
Earth ellipsoid or
Earth spheroid is a
mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a
reference frame for com****tions in geodesy, astronomy...
- the
motion of its
inertia ellipsoid,
which is
rigidly fixed to the
rigid body like a
coordinate frame. Its
inertia ellipsoid rolls,
without slipping, on...
- ellipse.
There are two
types of
ellipsoidal domes:
prolate ellipsoidal domes and
oblate ellipsoidal domes. A
prolate ellipsoidal dome is
derived by rotating...
- A
Jacobi ellipsoid is a
triaxial (i.e. scalene)
ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium which arises when a self-gravitating,
fluid body of
uniform density...
- A spheroid, also
known as an
ellipsoid of
revolution or
rotational ellipsoid, is a
quadric surface obtained by
rotating an
ellipse about one of its prin****l...
- the
ellipsoid method is an
iterative method for
minimizing convex functions over
convex sets. The
ellipsoid method generates a
sequence of
ellipsoids whose...
