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- DictionarySphe·roid/ˈsfiˌ(ə)roid/
noun
- 1. a sphere-like but not perfectly spherical body.
May 24, 2024 · A spheroid and an ellipsoid are both three-dimensional shapes, but they have some key differences. A spheroid is a specific type of ellipsoid that is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator. It is like a sphere that has been squashed from the top and bottom.
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2 days ago · A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light.
May 14, 2024 · For many maps, including nearly all maps in commercial atlases, it may be assumed that the Earth is a sphere. Actually, it is more nearly a slightly flattened sphere - an oblate ellipsoid of revolution, also called an oblate spheroid. This is an ellipse rotated about its shorter axis.
May 22, 2024 · The boundaries to define the regions were determined individually for each spheroid by calculating the median distance (D) of all cells from the center coordinates of the spheroid. The “inner region” was defined as the space containing cells with distances from the center within D and the remaining space was defined as the “outer region.”
May 18, 2024 · However, in my textbook (Cengage Physics, Mechanics - II), to find the gravitational force exerted by the Earth on masses at the equator and poles (where they showed the Earth as a spheroid), they used GMEm R2 eq G M E m R e q 2 and GMEm R2 po. e G M E m R p o l e 2 respectively.
2 days ago · Imaging of a droplet microlaser at the center of a multicellular spheroid shows no visual change of the droplet before and after the treatment with the myosin-II inhibitor blebbistatin (Fig. 3f).
May 10, 2024 · The first 30 µm of spheroid tissues (4–5 cell layers) approximates a well-vascularised normal tissue surrogate while the spheroid average response is a more representative surrogate for the wider mix of oxygenated and poorly oxygenated tumor tissues.
