spheroid

volume formed by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes; special case of ellipsoid
Intangible mathematical_object Q208395
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spheroid

Summary

spheroid is a mathematical object[1]. spheroid draws 409 Wikipedia views per month (mathematical_object category, ranking #2 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • spheroid's image is recorded as Ellipsoid-rot-ax.svg[3].
  • spheroid's image is recorded as Spheroids.svg[4].
  • spheroid's instance of is recorded as mathematical object[5].
  • spheroid's subclass of is recorded as surface of revolution[6].
  • spheroid's subclass of is recorded as ellipsoid[7].
  • spheroid's subclass of is recorded as non-degenerate quadric surface[8].
  • spheroid's subclass of is recorded as shape[9].
  • spheroid's Commons category is recorded as Spheroids[10].
  • spheroid's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0l4nr[11].
  • spheroid's PSH ID is recorded as 3784[12].
  • spheroid's Iconclass notation is recorded as 49D481[13].
  • spheroid's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0105028[14].
  • spheroid's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[15].
  • spheroid's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • spheroid's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • spheroid's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • spheroid's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/ellipsoid-of-revolution[19].
  • spheroid's has characteristic is recorded as flatness[20].
  • spheroid's defining formula is recorded as \frac{x^2}{a^2}+\frac{y^2}{a^2}+\frac{z^2}{b^2}=1[21].
  • spheroid's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00030408n[22].
  • spheroid's union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[23].
  • spheroid's MathWorld ID is recorded as Spheroid[24].
  • spheroid's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as spheroids[25].
  • spheroid's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as omdreiningsellipsoide[26].
  • spheroid's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[27].

Why It Matters

spheroid draws 409 Wikipedia views per month (mathematical_object category, ranking #2 of 8).[2] spheroid has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] spheroid is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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