Ellipsoid vs Ellipsoidal - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between ellipsoid and ellipsoidal

is that ellipsoid is shaped like an ellipse; elliptical while ellipsoidal is .

is (mathematics) a surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (includes the sphere).

(wikipedia ellipsoid) (en noun)

(mathematics) a surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (includes the sphere)

(geography) Such a surface used as a model of the shape of the earth.

Here the geoid is thirty meters below the ellipsoid .

* ellipsoid of revolution

(en adjective)

Shaped like an ellipse; elliptical.

(mathematics) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.

(botany) Having the tridimensional shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis.

* ellipsoid geodesic * ellipsoid method * ellipsoid packing * subellipsoid

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(mathematics) Of or pertaining to an ellipsoid.

* ellipsoidal calculus * ellipsoidal coordinate * ellipsoidal harmonic