A spheroidal body does not attract as does a sphere.
By means of a minutely careful investigation, he discovered in its motion two well-defined perturbations, each depending on the spheroidal figure of the earth.
There should then exist in the movement--I had almost said in the countenance--of the moon a sort of impress of the spheroidal figure of the earth.
These bombs were more or less viscous at the moment of ejection and by rotation in the air acquired their spheroidal form.
It involved the action of no third mass, but depended solely upon the progression of the line of apsides in a moderately elliptical orbit due to the spheroidal shape of the globes traversing it.
The liver when affected shows scattered foci of suppuration, which may become aggregated into spheroidal masses, surrounded by a zone of inflammation.
The Echinidea, again, are frequently quoted as exhibiting a gradual passage from a more generalised to a more specialised type, seeing that the elongated, or oval, Spatangoids appear after the spheroidal Echinoids.
But a spheroidal envelope cannot sink down into contact with a smaller internal spheroid, without disruption; it must run into wrinkles as the rind of an apple does when the bulk of its interior decreases from evaporation.
Females captured on the wing, laid in the breeding-cage single eggs of a light green colour, spheroidal in form, and very similar to those of C.
The eggs much resemble those of Chærocampa Elpenor, being spheroidal in form, but rather smaller, and of a somewhat darker green.
A necklace of large spheroidal beads of amber was found at Llangwyllog,[2290] Anglesea.
Its oblately spheroidal form is such as would be assumed by a rotating mass of matter in the transition from a vaporous and self-luminous or liquid condition to one of cool and dark solidity.
In order, therefore, that a spheroidal triangle may be exactly defined, it is necessary that the nature of the lines joining the three vertices be stated.
Three stations, projected on the surface of the sea, give a spherical or spheroidal triangle according to the adoption of the sphere or the ellipsoid as the form of the surface.
As a rule spheroidal triangles are calculated as spherical (after Legendre), i.
This nebulous ball assumed by its continual rotation a more or less flattened spheroidal form.
Others arespheroidal in shape, resting upon the surface of the parched earth.
That whitespheroidal mass, with its grinning rows and serrated sutures, that is a human skull.
We descended over granite which presented typical spheroidal weathering.
Just before reaching the first of these towns, the road passes over a coarse rock mass, which weathers into spheroidal shells.
Similarly, the diameters of flat or spheroidalcolonies may vary from a few times to many hundred [Sidenote: Cell-wall.
The Dog's egg is, in fact, a littlespheroidal bag (Fig.
The effect of the pressure exerted in smoothing them on the outside, therefore, naturally caused the upper parts to sink down, generating the spheroidal shape of the jar.
Now it happens that the most rapid rate of rotation of a fluid mass of the earth's average density, consistent with spheroidal equilibrium, is two hours and twenty minutes.
They are usually met with as spheroidal bodies covered with polygonal plates, with a mouth on the upper side, and a point of attachment for a stem b (which is almost always broken off) on the lower.
These sometimes constitute spheroidal concretions 6 feet in diameter, and pass into beds of solid limestone, resembling the Italian travertins, or the deposits of mineral springs.
B] It is a slightly oolitic shelly limestone, forming large spheroidal masses imbedded in sand, only 6 feet thick, but very rich in organic remains.
Very generally such cell has within it a more or less distinctly marked generally denser and spheroidal body called a nucleus, within which, again, other minute spots may appear called nucleoli.
Such creatures, then, have a spheroidal figure, and neither internally nor externally are their structures developed in special directions.
We have seen that unicellular organisms may unite into a cylindrical or spheroidal colony, as in some Radiolaria, or into a spheroid of closely-adjusted cells, forming one layer, as in Volvox.
Such creatures being equally acted on on all sides by surrounding agencies might be expected (like the subterranean truffle) to exhibit a spheroidal figure, with only one kind of surface upon their whole exterior.
As an example may be mentioned the Protococcus[76] nivalis, the little spheroidal alga, which abounds on Alpine summits and in Arctic regions.
A liquid held up in this manner above a hot surface is said to be in the spheroidal state, to distinguish it from the flat state usually assumed by spreading when contact occurs between the liquid and the surface.
Several times they almost walked under the bodies of great, spheroidal creatures with massive short legs, whose tremendously long, sinuous necks disappeared in the leafy murk above, swaying gently like long-stalked lilies in a terrestial pond.
The primary unit of the mechanism comprised a spheroidal vacuum-tube measuring a little over a foot across its long axis, mounted in a steel bracket that held it horizontal with the ground.
The marine sediments which are deposited in some of the warm bays of Teneriffe are found to take the spheroidalgranulated form of the oolite.
Thus the Earth takes the spheroidal form, belonging to it, in common with the greater number of the celestial bodies.
In the inner portion is a little spheroidal body, the nucleus.
Volvox is also a spheroidal organism, composed often of a very large number of flagellated cells.
And magosphæra is just such a little spheroidal colony.
When diluted with water and placed under the microscope they are found to consist of a spheroidal sac, containing a clear or granular fluid and a spheroidal vesicle, which is termed the nucleus.
The spheroidal form of the earth is thus exquisitely adapted to the working of the atmospheric machine.
In the earth is found an example of a planetary body of spheroidal form pursuing a clearly defined orbit in space and at the same time rotating with absolutely uniform velocity about a central axis within itself.
To express sensual grace the gesture takes the downwardspheroidal form.
Thus we have magnificent spheroidal movements which are graceful and also have considerable force.
If we wish to express many attractive things, we make many spheroidal gestures.
Here a spheroidal and then a rectangular movement must be made.
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