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- Spheroid abstract "A spheroid, or ellipsoid of revolution, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters.If the ellipse is rotated about its major axis, the result is a prolate (elongated) spheroid, like an American football or rugby ball. If the ellipse is rotated about its minor axis, the result is an oblate (flattened) spheroid, like a lentil. If the generating ellipse is a circle, the result is a sphere. A spheroid has circular symmetry.Because of the combined effects of gravity and rotation, the Earth's shape is not quite a sphere but instead is slightly flattened in the direction of its axis. For that reason, in cartography the Earth is often approximated by an oblate spheroid instead of a sphere. The current World Geodetic System model uses a spheroid whose radius is 6,378.137 km at the equator and 6,356.752 km at the poles.The word spheroid originally meant an approximately spherical body, admitting irregularities even beyond the bi- or tri-axial ellipsoidal shape, and that is how it is used in some older papers on geodesy (for example, referring to truncated spherical harmonic expansions of the Earth).".
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- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "Spheroid".
- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "ellipsoid of revolution".
- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "oblate ellipsoid".
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- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "prolate spheroid".
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- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "quasispheroidal".
- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "saucer-shaped".
- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "spheroid".
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- Spheroid wikiPageWikiLinkText "value of for an ellipsoid".
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