35 examples of spheroids in sentences

Dr. Wallich verified my observation, and added the interesting discovery that, not unfrequently, bodies similar to these "coccoliths" were aggregated together into spheroids, which lie termed "coccospheres."

I mean that, apart from the polar compression, the shape seemed as if the spheroid were irregularly squeezed; so that though not broken by projection or indentation, the limb did not present the regular quasi-circular curvature exhibited in the focus of our telescopes.

In the "Walpurgis dance of globule and oblate spheroid," there may be something wonderful, but through this drop of oil from the Walpurgian shrine an obstreperous knee snapped up into compact health instantly, and then a large church, ornamental to Preston and creditable to the entire Catholic population, arose.

He also wrote on conoids and spheroids.

Soc. of Spheroids differing little from a Sphere.

Mag. on a Memoir by M. Poisson relating to the Attraction of Spheroids. 1827

He wears the usual youth's garment, the short toga, reaching below the knee, and a hollow spheroid of gold suspended round his neck.

* * SPHEROID (sf[=e]'), a body or figure in shape like a sphere.

Behind him was a long bench on which were scattered tools of various sorts, fantastically shaped chemical apparatus, two or three electric batteries of odd sizes, and ranged along one end of it, in a row, were a score or more metal spheroids, a shade larger than a one-pound shell.

Finally Miss Thorne walked over to the long table and curiously lifted one of the spheroids.

At one end of it was a delicate, vibratory apparatus, not unlike the transmitter of a telephone, and the other end was threaded, as if the spheroid was made as an attachment to some other device.

XXII THE COMPACT A room, low-ceilinged, dim, gloomy, sinister as an inquisition chamber; a single large table in the center, holding a kerosene lamp, writing materials and a metal spheroid a shade larger than a one-pound shell; and around it a semicircle of silent, masked and cowled figures.

He picked up the metal spheroid and held it out for their inspection.

" He replaced the spheroid on the table.

It is one thing to watch the game from the grand stand or side-lines and another to have an awkward, wobbly, elusive spheroid tossed to the ground a few feet from you and be required to straightway throw yourself upon it in such manner that when it stops rolling it will be snugly stowed between you and the ground.

Around about, in and out, forms darted after descending spheroids, or seized a ball from outstretched hands, started desperately into motion, charged a few yards, and then, as though reconsidering, turned and trotted back, only to repeat the performance the next moment.

He examines the trees; they are myrtles of various heights; but among their glossy branches, he in vain seeks traces of the pruning-knife or shears; nature alone has thus disposed in spheroids or umbels the extremities of this rich vegetation.

he squeaked, and "G" Company haltedin form an oblate spheroid.

" The oblate spheroid assumed an archipelagic formation, melting into irregularly-placed military islands upon a sea of dust.

It happens, rather curiously, that, owing to the earth being an oblate spheroid, the difference between the source of the Mississippi and the center of the earth is less than that of its mouth and the center of the earth, and you may see how this running up hill is accounted for. From St. Louis I went to Indianapolis, thence to Pittsburg, where they have struck most extraordinary wells of natural gas.

Now, as the world is a globe, or, to speak more accurately, an oblate spheroid, the attempt to make an oblong square its symbol would seem, at first view, to present insuperable difficulties.

He showed that the earth must be an oblate spheroid, formed by the revolution of an ellipse round its lesser axis.

He showed how the tides were caused by the moon, and how the effect of the moon's action upon the earth is to draw its fluid parts into the form of an oblate spheroid, the axis of which passes through the moon.

"Well and happy; I do not believe it falls to the lot of any old woman to be happier in this oblate spheroid.

We owe to him the discovery of the true shape of the "red planet Mars,"that, like the Earth, it is an oblate spheroid, or flattened at the poles.

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