ellipsoidal

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This is also sometimes called an ellipsoidal joint.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

We can see that the virions are spherical or ellipsoidal, with “crowns” of spikes on their surfaces.

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

If you make the particles elongated or ellipsoidal, they deform the air-water interface, which causes the particles to strongly attract one another.

From US News • Aug. 18, 2011

The period from Eratosthenes to Picard has been called the spherical era of geodesy; the period from Picard to the end of the 19th century has been called the ellipsoidal period.

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