ellipsoid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is a quadric with equation x²/a² + y²/b² + z²/c² = 1.

   “Polarizability can be imagined as a three-dimensional ellipsoid centred on the centre of the molecule, as shown in Figure 10.4.”

2. isim Such a surface used as a model of the shape of the earth.

   “Here the geoid is thirty meters below the ellipsoid.”

3. sıfat Shaped like an ellipse; elliptical.
4. sıfat Of or pertaining to an ellipse; elliptic.
5. sıfat Having the tridimensional shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis.