Spheroid
A spheroid is a quadric surface in three dimensions obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes. If the ellipse is rotated about its major axis, the surface is called a prolate spheroid (similar to the shape of a rugby ball). If the minor axis is chosen, the surface is called an oblate spheroid (similar to the shape of planet Earth).The sphere is a special case of the spheroid in which the generating ellipse is a circle.
A spheroid is a special case of an ellipsoid where two of the three major axes are equal.
passeggio in the city. They had seen all the curiosities;
think there was a way on foot); they had had a collation there,
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with whom they had had a great friendship. Also English people--
they had loved dearly; she was dead and gone, poor dear.
(this expression was Miss Tita's own), though a few were left,
She mentioned the names of two or three Venetian old women; of a
he had really given up practice; of the avvocato Pochintesta,
These people came to see them without fail every year,
to make them some little present--her aunt and she together:
lampshades or mats for the decanters of wine at dinner or those
The last few years there had not been many presents;
interest and never suggested. But the people came all the same;
sketch of former social glories; the picnic at the Lido had
was of the impression that she had had a brilliant youth.
its gossiping, home-keeping, parsimonious, professional walks;
by contact something of the trick of the familiar,
I judged that she had imbibed this invertebrate dialect
mostly purely local--rose to her lips. If she knew little
Her aunt had drawn in--her failing interest in the table mats
to mingle in society or to entertain it alone; so that the matter
If she had not been so decent her references would have seemed
I found myself falling into the error of thinking of her too
having so little in common with my own. It was possible,
it might very well be that Juliana had not cared to lift even
case she perhaps would not know of the existence of the papers,
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