how to pronounce ellipsoid

/ɪˈlɪpsɔɪd/

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ellipsoid is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of ellipsoid in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… round one side of this ellipsoid is a …”

meanings of ellipsoid

adjective:

  1. Shaped like an ellipse; elliptical.
  2. Having the tridimensional shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis.
  3. Of or pertaining to an ellipse; elliptic.

noun:

  1. A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) is a quadric with equation x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 + z^2/c^2 = 0.
  2. Such a surface used as a model of the shape of the earth.

ellipsoid frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word ellipsoid occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics ellipsoid can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that ellipsoid can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

words with pronunciation similar to ellipsoid

ellipseelicit

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