spheroid

'The effect of graviational radiation on the secular stability of the Maclaurin spheroid', Astrophys.

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Autobiography 1984

The labours of Fernel and above all of Picard, upon the measure of a terrestrial degree between Paris and Amiens, had made it clear that the globe is not a sphere, but a spheroid, that is to say, a ball flattened at the poles and swollen at the equator, and thus were found at one stroke the form and the dimensions of the world which we inhabit.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866

At the flat end of the spheroid was a small ring of a pink colour, from which ran lines forming the ribs, which supported the sides of the animal.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

Page 548, Volume 1 weaker than at the less distant poles, and Huygens 'pendulum clock should beat time more slowly at lower latitudes than at higher latitudes on this oblate spheroid which is our earth.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

Then idly he rolled a dimpled spheroid around the palm of his hand.

365 tomorrows » 2009 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

Therefore, we—as the children of monkeys who fetishized symmetry and evenness—inherited a desire to live in a perfectly round world instead of a flat-topped oblate spheroid; to want planets that traveled in perfectly round orbits instead of weird egg-shaped ellipses and an Earth that looked like an inkblot with the equator as the fold.

X, Chapter 3: Morowitz Benjamin Matvey 2012

"You'll see the Earth is curved but it won't be, 'We live on this oblate spheroid!'"

Found in Space Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Part of the play's appeal today is nostalgic: it evokes an era when football reporters talked of "agitating the spheroid to the sticks" and when a star centre-forward, bent on self-improvement, could say "there's things in Browning I can't figure out and Walter Pater has me beat to atoms."

The Game Michael Billington 2010

Then idly he rolled a dimpled spheroid around the palm of his hand.

365 tomorrows » Have a good look, Mr. G. : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

She's also not great looking-her skin's a little sallow and either through genetics or lack of maintanence she's cursed with an enormous frizzy Jew fro, which she always wears bobbling back and forth in a gigantic spheroid on top of her head.

Josephine Skinny Jeans: Chapter 1 2010