This gigantic ellipsoidal block of rock, which seems as though balanced on a sharp point, could neither be displaced nor made to oscillate by continued leaping.
Tisserand and Professor Newcomb[1143] independently published the conclusion that such shifting necessarily results from Neptune's ellipsoidal shape.
The potential of such a shell at any internal point is constant, and the equipotential surfaces for external space are ellipsoids confocal with the ellipsoidal shell.
Fruit subglobose to broadly obovoid, ellipsoidal or pyriform, the involucre on the different varieties 2--13 mm.
N by means of Lame's functions; in this case the condensation is effected on an ellipsoidal surface, which approximates to the geoid.
Lime in the Capillitium scanty; the nodules small, roundish, ellipsoidal or fusiform.
Sporangium ellipsoidal or pyriform, the columella prolonged nearly to the apex of the sporangium.
Caryoxiphus, Caryodoras, Caryolonche), have now been proved to belong to other groups, mainly ellipsoidal Druppulida.
In the second species each of the domes of the {682}inner cortical shell is protected by an outer larger cupola, and besides this the whole shell is enveloped by a thin ellipsoidal veil (Pl.
Ellipsida# with simple ellipsoidal shell, without radial spines or polar tubes, but with an inner transverse axial rod, which corresponds to the shorter axis of the ellipsoid.
Spongurida# with spongy ellipsoidal cortical shell, enclosing a simple, spherical or ellipsoidal, latticed medullary shell.
The ellipsoidal Belonaspida have arisen directly by hypertrophy of the two opposite equatorial spines of this hydrotomical axis (p.
Shorter axis equals twice the diameter of the inner ellipsoidal shell.
Spongy framework loose, with large meshes, about as thick as the ellipsoidal medullary shell.
Sometimes the inner medullary shell is spherical, the outer ellipsoidal or lenticular.
Shell composed of four concentric shells, two ellipsoidalcortical shells, and two spherical medullary shells.
Spongurida# with an ellipsoidal or cylindrical spongy shell, containing an internal cavity, without a latticed medullary shell.
The apophyses of the twenty radial spines, the branches of which compose the ellipsoidal lattice-shell, exhibit in all Belonaspida the same appearance as in the Diporaspida (and especially the Ceriaspida) among the spherical Dorataspida.
Small animals with ellipsoidal form and about twice as long as broad.
The nucleus is spherical or ellipsoidal and placed in the posterior half of the shell.
Radial tubes cylindrical, equally broad, with an inflated ellipsoidal knob at the distal end.
The large shell, reaching nearly half a millimeter in length is eitherellipsoidal or nearly spherical, and composed of an inner primary and an outer secondary shell.
Shell ellipsoidal or subspherical, scarcely compressed, with a single straight conical spine on the apical pole, about as long as the diameter.
The genus Aulatractus differs from all the other Aulosphaerida in the peculiar prolongation of the vertical axis of the lattice-sphere, by which the latter becomesellipsoidal or spindle-shaped.
Archicorida# with a double ovate or ellipsoidal shell, composed of two parallel lattice-plates, which are connected by numerous beams.
Radial spines cylindrical, dimpled, undulate or curved in a snake-like manner, about as long as the diameter of the ellipsoidal or spherical shell and four to six times as broad as its smooth bars.
The central capsule is large, ellipsoidal or ovate, and fills up the greater part of the shell cavity (compare R.
The central capsule is originally always enclosed in the cephalis, and has there a simple, subspherical, ellipsoidal or ovate form.
Archiphormida# (vel Monocyrtida multiradiata aperta) with an ellipsoidal or nearly spherical double shell; outer shell arachnoidal or spongy.
In the specimen observed by me the three internal, divergent bars of the ellipsoidal thorax (not seen by Ehrenberg) were as distinct as in the similar preceding and following species.
Ovoid or ellipsoidal branchlets or receptacles, single or in groups, occur at intervals along the sides of both stem and branches.
The 19th century witnessed the culmination of the ellipsoidal era of geodesy, but the rapid accumulation of data made possible a better approximation to the figure of the earth by the geoid.
An epoch-making work during the ellipsoidal era of geodesy was Clairaut's treatise, Theorie de la figure de la terre.
The period from Eratosthenes to Picard has been called the spherical era of geodesy; the period from Picard to the end of the 19th century has been called the ellipsoidal period.
The so-called typical Roman visage is mesoprosopic, with anellipsoidal contour.
If we make transverse sections of hair and examine them under the microscope, we find that the resulting geometrical figures are not all equal: the forms of the sections oscillate between rounded and ellipsoidal forms.
Crania with curved and symmetrical lines, but in which the perimeter consists not of a single ellipsoidal curve, but of two curves.
In fact, while the aristocratic face is ellipsoidal and proopic, that of the peasant is characterised by a pronounced wideness between the cheek-bones, and that of the city labourer by a peculiar development in the height of the mandible.
I note, as seen from this norm, two anomalies in which the ellipsoidal uniformity outlining the profile of the cranium is altered.
The ellipsoidal central capsule contains numerous nuclei and is enclosed by the calymma.
The central capsule is filled up by clear vacuoles and exhibits in the upper half the ellipsoidal nucleus and four oil-globules, in the lower half the slender striated podoconus.
Ellipsoidal Harmonics are mathematical functions by means of which certain physical problems in heat and electricity relating to ellipsoidal surfaces can be solved.
In Panicum colonum the outline of the stem is ellipsoidal with the front quite flat, and the cortex is narrow at the sides and very broad in front and at the back.
Grain narrow ellipsoidal or cylindric as long as the palea.
Grain is oblong to ellipsoidalfree within the glume and its palea.
Between two thousand and three thousand stones fell over an ellipsoidal area of six and two-tenths miles in greatest diameter, the aggregate weight of the stones being not less than seventy-five pounds.
In such instances the fall usually consists of several hundred or thousand individual stones and the area over which they fall is several square miles in extent and roughly ellipsoidal in shape.
August or September, ellipsoidal or pyriform, scarlet to crimson, often glaucous, 1-1.
Moynihan leaned down towards Stephen's ear and murmured: --What price ellipsoidal balls!
The earth was like a swinging swaying censer, a ball of incense, an ellipsoidal fall.
Returning to the rotunda, and going east, we enter the Supreme Court Room, occupying a circular or ellipsoidal projection built out from the east side of the building between the two wings.
The shape is described as ovoid in 7 men, oval in 2, round oval in 1 of each sex, and ellipsoidal in 4 men.
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