English-Finnish translations for ellipsoid

• ellipsoidi
• ellipsoidinen
• elliptinen
  Planeetat kiertävät Aurinkoa elliptisillä radoilla.
  Suomessa "lehti" voi olla elliptinen ilmaisu sekä sanoma- että aikakauslehdelle.
  "Todistus" voi olla elliptisesti koulutodistus, päättötodistus, henkilötodistus tai oikeudessa lausuttu todistus.
• soikea

Definition of ellipsoid

• A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular , that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates is a quadric with equation ''x²/a²'+ ''y²/b²'+ ''z²/c²'= 0
• Such a surface used as a model of the shape of the earth
• Shaped like an ellipse; elliptical
• Having the tridimensional shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis

Examples

• Here the geoid is thirty meters below the ellipsoid

Related words

• ellipse
• ellipsis
• ellipsoidal
• superellipse
• standard equation of an ellipse