单词 | spheroidical |
释义 | spheroidicaladj. 1. = spheroidal adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal spheroidical1698 spheroidical1708 subglobose1752 subglobular1773 subround1779 spheroidal1807 globoid1863 1698 J. Keill in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) (1726) 33 254 Because..I have already shew'd that the Surface of the Ocean is spheroidical and not spherical. 1742 Derham's Physico-theol. (ed. 10) viii. vi. 376 Its Leaves expanded, minister to the Germination of globular, and other sphæroidical [earlier sphæroidal] Balls. 1787 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 993/1 The barrows..are..in general nearly spheroidical. 1831 H. Lloyd Light & Vision iii. i. 265 The bounding surfaces of the refracting media, however, are not spherical,..but spheroidical. 1851 T. De Quincey On Present State Eng. Lang. in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 6 98/1 Any whatever of the larger spherical or spheroidical fruits. 2. = spheroidal adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal spheroidical1698 spheroidical1708 subglobose1752 subglobular1773 subround1779 spheroidal1807 globoid1863 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal > characteristic of a spheroid spheroidical1708 spheroid1769 spheroidal1781 1708 J. Keill Acct. Animal Secretion 163 The Globule would be pressed into a Spheroidical Form. 1710 Brit. Apollo 22–25 Dec. The Spheroidical Figure of the Earth. 1845 J. F. W. Herschel Ess. (1857) 666 The change of spheroidical form. Derivatives spheˈroidically adv. spheroidally. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adverb] > spherically > spheroidally spheroidically1786 spheroidally1888 1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 69 We may, therefore, conclude it impossible for the poles of the earth to shift, if it was made spheroidically. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1698 |
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