The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ellipsoid \El*lip"soid\, Ellipsoidal \El`lip*soi"dal\, a. Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (alternative form of ellipsoid English) 2 (context mathematics English) Of or pertaining to an ellipsoid.
WordNet
adj. in the form of an ellipse [syn: ellipsoid, spheroidal, non-circular]
Usage examples of "ellipsoidal".
The ellipsoidal fireball continued its pummeling fire until finally the warglobe shattered, and its wreckage tumbled into the thick canopy.
The ellipsoidal moon was so closeonly a few diameters awaythat it seemed in danger of falling.
Prism Palace rested atop a smooth ellipsoidal hill from which seven streams radiated outward like the spokes of a wheel.
In the center of town, where the ellipsoidal dome was a quarter of a mile high, there were even twenty-story buildings.
Things were spilling out: an expanding mass of ellipsoidal objects, each perhaps half a metre long, metallic-white in colour, with various protrusions, gun-nozzles, manipulators and apertures interrupting its surface.
Not that the ship's ellipsoidal, coherent drive field, which shielded the Deux from the effects of a hundred gees or more, contradicted "Saint Albert"-not exactly.
The ellipsoidal moon was so close—only a few diameters away—that it seemed in danger of falling.
This time, he was surrounded by a flock of hornet-size aerostats flying in an ellipsoidal formation all around him, hissing gently and invisibly through the night and waiting for an excuse to swarm.
Ellipsoidal in shape, it was 98 centimeters in length by 52 in extreme breadth.
Ellipsoidal in shape, it was 98 centimeters in length by 52 in extreme breadth Made of steel one centimeter in thickness, it had to be strong, but not grossly so, just enough to hold a vacuum.
Each projectile consisted of a fission bomb contained in an ellipsoidal cavity shaped to feed a configuration of lasing material that would transform a large proportion of the detonation energy into fifty independently aimable beams of high-density X rays.