ellipsoidal

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This is also sometimes called an ellipsoidal joint.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Under the electron microscope, SARS-CoV-2 virions look spherical or ellipsoidal.

From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2020

The ellipsoidal shape, roughly 15 feet across and suspended from the ceiling, is composed of 230 chrome-plated aluminum rods poking out from a mirrored sphere, about a third of them tipped with electric lights.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2018

Even if the clumped ellipsoidal particles reach the edge of the droplet, they do not pack as closely as round particles.

From US News • Aug. 18, 2011

The 19th century witnessed the culmination of the ellipsoidal era of geodesy, but the rapid accumulation of data made possible a better approximation to the figure of the earth by the geoid.

From Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 by Lenzen, Victor Fritz