Jacobi ellipsoid

English

Etymology

Discovered by German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.

Noun

Jacobi ellipsoid (plural Jacobi ellipsoids)

1. A triaxial ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium.

Hypernyms

• ellipsoid
• scalene ellipsoid
• spheroid
• triaxial ellipsoid

 

Coordinate terms

equilibrium ellipsoids

• Dedekind ellipsoid
• Maclaurin spheroid