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Having the form of a spheroid.
<physics> Spheroid"ally, Spheroidal state, the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees below ebullition, and without actual contact with the heated surface, a phenomenon due to the repulsive force of heat, the intervention of a cushion of nonconducting vapor, and the cooling effect of evaporation.
Origin: Cf. F. Spheroidal.
(01 Mar 1998)
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