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English to English noun
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a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes |  | Example: it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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