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Ellipsoid vs Ellipsoidally - What's the difference?

ellipsoid | ellipsoidally |

As a noun ellipsoid

is ellipsoid (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular).

As an adverb ellipsoidally is

in an ellipsoidal manner.

ellipsoid

English

Noun

(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 .

    Derived terms

    * ellipsoid of revolution

    Adjective

    (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.

    • Derived terms

    * ellipsoid geodesic * ellipsoid method * ellipsoid packing * subellipsoid

    Related terms

    * globose * globoid * ovoid * oblong

    ellipsoidally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an ellipsoidal manner
  • In the form of an ellipsoid