Word Meanings - HEMISPHEROID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A half of a spheroid.

Related words: (words related to HEMISPHEROID)

• SPHEROIDAL
  Having the form of a spheroid. -- Sphe*roid"al*ly, adv. Spheroidal state , the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees
• SPHEROIDIC; SPHEROIDICAL
  See CHEYNE
• SPHEROID
  A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. Oblate spheroid, Prolate spheroid. See Oblate, Prolate, and Ellipsoid.
• SPHEROIDICITY; SPHEROIDITY
  The quality or state of being spheroidal.
• HEMISPHEROID
  A half of a spheroid.
• HEMISPHEROIDAL
  Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.
• SEMISPHEROIDAL
  Formed like a half spheroid.