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spheroidical, a.|sfɛˈrɔɪdɪkəl|
[f. spheroid n. + -ical.]
1. = spheroidal a. 2.
1698Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 254 Because..I have already shew'd that the Surface of the Ocean is spheroidical and not spherical. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. vi. (1752) 378 Its leaves expanded, minister to the germination of globular, and other spheroidical balls. 1787Gentl. Mag. Nov. 993/1 The barrows..are..in general nearly spheroidical. 1823De Quincey Lett. Lang. (1860) 128 Any whatever of the larger spheroidical fruits. 1831H. Lloyd Light & Vision iii. i. 265 The bounding surfaces of the refracting media, however, are not spherical,..but spheroidical.
2. = spheroidal a. 1.
1708J. Keill Anim. Secret. 163 The Globule would be pressed into a Spheroidical Form. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 118. 1/2 The Spheroidical Figure of the Earth. 1845Herschel Ess. (1857) 666 The change of spheroidical form.
Hence spheˈroidically adv., spheroidally.
1786Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 69 We may, therefore, conclude it impossible for the poles of the earth to shift, if it was made spheroidically. |