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Meaning of "spheroid" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPHEROID

spheroid  [ˈsfɪərɔɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPHEROID

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spheroid can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SPHEROID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spheroid

A spheroid, or ellipsoid of revolution is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. If the ellipse is rotated about its major axis, the result is a prolate spheroid, like an American football or rugby ball. If the ellipse is rotated about its minor axis, the result is an oblate spheroid, like a lentil. If the generating ellipse is a circle, the result is a sphere. Because of the combined effects of gravitation and rotation, the Earth's shape is roughly that of a sphere slightly flattened in the direction of its axis. For that reason, in cartography the Earth is often approximated by an oblate spheroid instead of a sphere. The current World Geodetic System model uses a spheroid whose radius is 6,378.137 km at the equator and 6,356.752 km at the poles. The word spheroid originally meant an approximately spherical body and that is how it is used in some older papers on geodesy. In order to avoid confusion, spheroid should be defined as an ellipsoid of revolution, if that is the intended meaning.

Definition of spheroid in the English dictionary

The definition of spheroid in the dictionary is shaped like but not exactly a sphere.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPHEROID


android
ˈændrɔɪd
asteroid
ˈæstəˌrɔɪd
choleroid
ˈkɒlərɔɪd
corticosteroid
ˌkɔːtɪkəʊˈstɪərɔɪd
echiuroid
ˌɛkɪˈjʊərɔɪd
erythroid
ɪˈrɪθrɔɪd
Freud
frɔɪd
haemorrhoid
ˈhemərɔɪd
hemispheroid
ˌhɛmɪˈsfɪərɔɪd
hemorrhoid
ˈhemərɔɪd
ketosteroid
ˌkiːtəʊˈstɪərɔɪd
neuroid
ˈnjʊərɔɪd
ophiuroid
ˌɒfɪˈjʊərɔɪd
Polaroid
ˈpəʊləˌrɔɪd
scleroid
ˈsklɪərɔɪd
siluroid
saɪˈlʊərɔɪd
steroid
ˈstɪərɔɪd
tapiroid
ˈteɪpərɔɪd
theroid
ˈθɪərɔɪd
thyroid
ˈθaɪrɔɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPHEROID

spherical trigonometry
sphericality
spherically
sphericalness
sphericity
spherics
spheristerion
spherocyte
spherocytoses
spherocytosis
spheroidal
spheroidally
spheroidically
spheroidicity
spheroidisation
spheroidise
spheroidization
spheroidize
spherometer
spheroplast

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPHEROID

amberoid
anabolic steroid
aneroid
antithyroid
astroid
bacteroid
centroid
chancroid
diphtheroid
eurypteroid
hysteroid
meteoroid
near-earth asteroid
Negroid
nonsteroid
orthopteroid
parathyroid
pyrethroid
Trojan asteroid
tuberoid

Synonyms and antonyms of spheroid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spheroid» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPHEROID

Find out the translation of spheroid to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spheroid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spheroid» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

球体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esferoide
570 millions of speakers

English

spheroid
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंडाकार आकृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كروي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сфероид
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esferóide
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপগোলক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sphéroïde
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Spheroid
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sphäroid
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

回転楕円体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회전 타원체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spheroid
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình tự cầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोलाकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

küremsi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sferoide
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sferoida
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сфероид
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sferoid
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σφαιροειδές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sferoïde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sfäroid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spheroid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spheroid

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPHEROID»

The term «spheroid» is regularly used and occupies the 96.446 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPHEROID» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spheroid

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPHEROID»

Discover the use of spheroid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spheroid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spheroid Culture in Cancer Research
The book will be profoundly important to researchers in experimental chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and hyperthermia.
Rolf Bjerkvig, 1992
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Methods in Endothelial Cell Biology
Three-Dimensional. Spheroid. Culture. of. Endothelial. Cells. Thomas Korff $ Introduction Endothelial cells (EC) line the inside of all blood vessels as a monolayer and contact smooth muscle cells (SMC) or pericytes (PC) through breaks in the ...
Hellmut G. Augustin, 2004
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Mathematical Modeling of Cell Movement and Tumor Spheroid ...
Same parameter values <7-,a+,c+ as in Fig 5.20 135 5.23 Upper: EMT6 spheroid 1) 750/ira diameter spheroid 2) #3-labelled cells at 24 h 3) microspheres and i73- labelled cells at 4 h 4) microspheres at 48 h. Lower: movement of the ...
Yangjin Kim, 2006
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Map ProjectionsTheory and Applications
An example of this is the Clarke 1866, which is still the standard reference spheroid for the U.S. A problem arose in any attempt the "fit" spheroids together at discontinuities. Beginning with the Hayford spheroid, an attempt was made to obtain ...
Frederick Pearson, II, 1990
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Methods of Tissue Engineering
Uneven coating of the plates due to impurities or poor evaporation of the ethanol would in turn cause poor spheroid formation. The shaking speed will also affect the size of the spheroids formed, increasing speeds resulting in smaller ...
Anthony Atala, Robert Paul Lanza, 2002
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The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
When two semiaxes a, b, of the ellipsoid abc become equal, it changes into a spheroid aac described by the revolution of the ellipse ac about the semiaxis c ; and the biaxal aac, generated by this spheroid, is * composed of a sphere whose  ...
Royal Irish Academy (Dublin), 1837
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Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at ...
One measurement appeared to show that the Earth was a prolate spheroid; this was disputed by Newton and others and then we had the famous French arcs in 1735 and 1736 which proved it was an oblate spheroid. In the nineteenth century , ...
Charles A. Whitten, Kenneth H. Drummond, 1959
8
A philosophical and mathematical dictionary: containing an ...
SPHEROID, a solid body approaching to the figure of a sphere, though not exactly round, but having one of its diameters longer than the other. This solid is usually considered as generated by the rotation of an oval plane figure about one of its ...
Charles Hutton, 1815
9
The principles of architecture
OF A SPHEROID. DEFINITION8. 1. A spheroid is a solid, generated by the rotation of a semiellipsis about the transverse or conjugate axis, and the centre of the ellipsis is the centre of the spheroid. 2. The line about which the ellipsis revolves, ...
Peter Nicholson, 1809
10
Computing with Maple
A spheroid is a sphere that has been squashed or stretched in one direction and is intermediate between a sphere and a general ellipsoid. A squashed sphere is called an oblate spheroid and a stretched sphere is called a prolate spheroid.
Francis Wright, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPHEROID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spheroid is used in the context of the following news items.
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Researchers test bioartificial liver device to treat acute liver failure
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed and are testing an alternative to liver transplantation called the Spheroid Reservoir Bioartificial Liver that can ... «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
2
Mayo Clinic researchers test Spheroid Reservoir Bioartificial Liver to …
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed and are testing an alternative to liver transplantation called the Spheroid Reservoir Bioartificial Liver that can ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
3
Alternative games can be a challenge
To split a Spheroid move the top piece like a Spheroid and leave the bottom piece behind. You can split a Spheroid as a move or as a capture. Yes, a splitting ... «Yorkton This Week, Jul 15»
4
Prospective cohort study using the breast cancer spheroid model as …
Methods: Three-dimensional spheroids were directly generated from fresh breast tumor biopsies of 78 patients eligible for neoadjuvant therapy. Cell survival ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jul 15»
5
Inhibition of hexokinase-2 with targeted liposomal 3-bromopyruvate …
Methods: Multicellular SKOV-3 tumor spheroids were developed using the hanging drop method and expression levels of glycolytic markers were examined. «Dove Medical Press, Jul 15»
6
Scientists develop human cortical spheroids
Sergiu Pasca, M.D., of Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, and colleagues, debut what they call "human cortical spheroids," May 25, 2015 online in the journal ... «News-Medical.net, Jun 15»
7
Brain cell spheres in a lab dish mimic human cortex, Stanford study …
They use a person's skin cells, so the resulting “human cortical spheroid” has the same genetic composition as the donor. The research was published in Nature ... «Scope, May 15»
8
'Brain Balls' Grown From Skin Cells Spark With Electricity
Caption: Cross-section of a human cortical spheroid showing the specific arrangement of radial glial processes, orthogonal to the lumen of a ventricular-like ... «Wired, May 15»
9
Tiny spheres of human cells mimic the brain, researchers say
The researchers hope that tracking the development of the cortex-like spheroids over time and observing the interactions of their cells may shed light on human ... «HealthCanal.com, May 15»
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Enhanced Ultra-low Attachment Plate for Scaffold-free 3D Cell Culture
GravityTRAP™ ULA Plate design simplifies medium exchange and improves imaging during spheroid production and culture. By InSphero AG | May 8, 2015. «The Scientist, May 15»

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