Jacobi ellipsoid

noun

Jacobi ellipsoid

noun

Etymology Discovered by German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.

1

A triaxial ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium.

Hypernyms
ellipsoid, scalene ellipsoid, spheroid, triaxial ellipsoid
Coordinate terms
Dedekind ellipsoid, Maclaurin spheroid

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