Examples of ellipsoid in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web When the geoid is above the ellipsoid, the difference is subtracted. — Freddie Wilkinson, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020 Again, by elementary optics and geometry, light rays originating at one focus of a hollow reflective ellipsoid are reflected to the other focus by its inside surface. — Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020 The earth is slightly thicker in the equator, making it an ellipsoid, technically. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019 From radar observations, Psyche the asteroid appears ellipsoid in shape, about as wide as Massachusetts. — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017

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