Definition of Ellipsoids

1. Noun. (plural of ellipsoid) ¹

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Definition of Ellipsoids

1. ellipsoid [n] - See also: ellipsoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ellipsoids

ellenbergerite
ellestadite
ellestadites
ellipse
ellipsed
ellipses
ellipsing
ellipsis
ellipsograph
ellipsographs
ellipsoid
ellipsoid of revolution
ellipsoidal
ellipsoidal joint
ellipsoidally
ellipsoids (current term)
ellipsometer
ellipsometers
ellipsometric
ellipsometry
ellipsosome
ellipt
elliptic
elliptic-lanceolate
elliptic curve
elliptic function
elliptic functions
elliptic geometry
elliptic leaf
elliptical

Literary usage of Ellipsoids

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

1. Mathematische Annalen by Carl Neumann, Otto Blumenthal, Bartel Leendert Waerden, Adolph Mayer, David Hilbert, Alfred Clebsch, Albert Einstein, Constantin Carath�eodory, Erich Hecke, Felix Klein, Heinrich Behnke (1907)
"Über die Anziehung eines homogenen ellipsoids. Von J. 0. MÜLLER in Göttingen. Um die Anziehung eines homogenen ellipsoids von der Dichte l auf einen inneren ..."

2. A Treatise on Hydrodynamics: With Numerous Examples by Alfred Barnard Basset (1888)
"Let us now suppose that the space between two concentric coaxial and confocal ellipsoids is filled with liquid, and that the inner and outer ellipsoids are ..."

3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1843)
"Of such ellipsoids, consisting of homogeneous Matter, as are capable of having the Resultant of the Attraction of the Mass upon a Particle in the Surface, ..."

4. Solid Geometry by Percival Frost (1875)
"If the hyperboloid which cuts the confocal ellipsoids be either of the flat ... One of the series of ellipsoids in Art. 313 is the flat surface bounded by ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1856)
"The following papers were read:— V. " The Attraction of ellipsoids considered ... This general proposition, which is an extension to ellipsoids of those ..."

6. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1903)
"In the present investigation extension is made to ellipsoids, including flat circular disks and thin blades. The results arrived at are limiting values, ..."

7. A System of Analytic Mechanics by Benjamin Peirce (1855)
"The points of the two ellipsoids, which correspond in this process, have been called by IVORY corresponding points. By this process, any Newtonian shell may ..."

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