A surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles

Usage examples of ellipsoid.

He bent his eyes on the ellipsoid as though weighing the matter in his mind.

Not a meteorite but a metallic ellipsoid, half-buried in the ground and slowly cooling?

Not a minute later there was a ringing and clanking from the ellipsoid that everybody heard.

At the clangor from the mysterious ellipsoid, only one thing prevented the latter.

Flares ripped through the roiling photosphere, followed by a blinding armada of ellipsoid faeros ships that collided with a thousand diamond-hulled warglobes in the sea of flames.

Behemoth-sized shadows moved, nightmarish ellipsoid hulls with flat heads, blazing optical sensors, and multiple murderous arms.

Sirix had launched a grappling cable from his ellipsoid body core: a hook and an attached line spinning across space.

The warship, nearly Nova-class size itself, was growing clearer by the second as its delicately spined ellipsoid form began to fill the display.

Juggernaut pulled away, five of the flaming ellipsoids emerged from Oncier like blazing comets.

The incandescent ellipsoids continued to block the worst of the sunstorm from the flotilla of crowded ships until the Roamers had reached a safe distance.

Ahead, he could see the spectacular Prism Palace composed of hemispheres and ellipsoids, spires, balconies, and arched bridges.

Rising through the ionized clouds was a cluster of fiery ellipsoids, vessels shaped out of sheets of flame and controlled thermal energy.

The size and shape of the surface are properties of the embedding, not of the manifold itself-so a sphere and an ellipsoid are two different embeddings of exactly the same manifold--but a particular embedding in Euclidean space can he used to supplement a manifold with the geometrical concepts needed to make it into a Riemannian space.

And flying in groups and pairs, without formation, came swooping the strange ellipsoid black forms of cormorants, twenty or thirty of them, more than Will had ever seen flying together.

They had erected an ellipsoid force field for the protection of the entire group, for the all-purpose vehicles, the cross-country jeeps containing radar and radio installations, the mobile kitchen, the trailer with airtight living quarters, and the small carriage on caterpillar tracks on which their laser beam sender had been mounted.