How to Use spheroid in a Sentence

spheroid

noun

• The spheroids will need to be drained, cleaned and inspected.
  — David Sheppard, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid flattened at the poles.
  — Randy Alfred, WIRED, 19 June 2008
• Because the Earth rotates, that shape gets compressed at the poles and bulges in the middle, forming a shape known as an oblate spheroid.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• The team created a model of the ventral region by adding an extra protein to cortical spheroids at just the right time.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• The live feed appears on a spheroid TV that looks like an astronaut’s helmet and directly faces the Buddha.
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
• The ball has its shape — a prolate spheroid — because that was the natural shape of the inflated pig bladder used to make the first football in the 19th century.
  — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
• In some cases, material from this disk forms a blob-like spheroid, but the YORP effect continues to shape it.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
• The nucleus is a prolate spheroid, like a rugby ball, and should lead to discovery of more wobbly isotopes.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
• Yet the integrity of the game continues to be threatened by a spheroid that costs about $9 and could be affected by even the simple act of a mosquito buzzing around the horsehide of a cow.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
• That has a physical difference when gripping an object shaped like a prolate spheroid.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• On the contrary, there is an irresistible impulse among the boys of suburban Minneapolis to put our gym shoes of varying stripe and quality through a prolate spheroid.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 21 June 2017
• The first human brain balls—aka cortical spheroids, aka neural organoids—agglomerated into existence just a few short years ago.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
• Ghawar, Khurais, Shaybah—comes to Abqaiq to be processed, coursing through its sprawling network of pipes, spheroids and stabilisation towers before being sent to customers around the world.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• But Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning a 3D shape created by an ellipsis that’s rotating around its shorter axis—like a more rounded jelly donut.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
• To take the curvature of the Earth into account, surveyors used spheroid models—rough, rounder precursors to the more mathematically complex ellipsoid models.
  — Freddie Wilkinson, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024