This cactus is spherical, oblate, or nearly cylindrical, is usually wider than tall, and less than 30 centimeters in height.
Kiffa beads were made in various shapes: blue, red, and polychromatic triangles with yellow, black, white, red and blue chevron-type and decorations that resemble eyes; blue, red and polychromatic diamond shaped beads; cigar shaped and conical beads as well as a variety of small spherical and oblate beads.
The exact distance varies along meridians because the shape of the Earth is slightly oblate.
The oblate spheroid is the approximate shape of many planets and celestial bodies, including Saturn and Altair;
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An everyday example of an oblate spheroid is the shape of confectionery such as Smarties or M&M's.
The shape of an egg is approximately half of each of a prolate (long) and a roughly spherical (potentially even slightly oblate/short) ellipsoid joined at the equator, sharing a principal axis of rotational symmetry, as illustrated above.
A rhombic icosahedron (or rhombic icosacontahedron) is a polyhedron shaped like an oblate sphere.
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