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Noun(1) a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes

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(1) But I do know most human games require a spheroid and a goal of some sort.(2) A chemical engineer phoned to tell me that he had spotted a spheroid or fat football with rounded ends flying over on the evening of August 28, 2002.(3) For instance, within spheroids , steep gradients exist for cellular oxygen levels, nutrients, pH and glucose concentrations, and this particular situation might affect the PDT outcome.(4) Cells are prolate spheroids with an aspect ratio close to 1.5.(5) In Nina's small attached greenhouse, bags of prairie seed await sowing: the small spheroids of prairie dropseed.(6) From a previous study it is known that the response of human glioma spheroids to PDT is somewhat dependent on the drug concentration used.(7) The change in colour from cream-coloured to amber, and the change in shape from a prolate spheroid to an indented, prismatic solid, is typical for corn pollen during drying.(8) Prey size was measured as volume, calculating the item as a prolate spheroid .(9) Furthermore, the extent of photosensitizer distribution and penetration into the spheroids was examined.(10) The central finding of this study is that the response of human glioma spheroids depends not only on the total fluence, but also on the rate at which the fluence is delivered.(11) The adult ovary may present marked deviations from its typical form, sometimes being unusually long, spheroidal , flattened, triangular, crescentric, or otherwise irregular.(12) The open conformation would easily associate with the surface of a spheroidal particle that is much larger in size.(13) We are currently in the process of extending the work reported here to related studies using multicell tumor spheroids .(14) In all cases, spheroids were irradiated with 635 nm light from an argon ion-pumped dye.(15) To a good approximation, the geoid is an oblate spheroid whose major axis is about 0.3 per cent longer than the minor one.(16) Similar results are obtained for more general spheroidal shapes such as ellipsoid.