geoid (je oid)

[ the mean surface of the sea would stand if it were allowed to flow in through a small subterranean canal. The geoid has no simple geometrical form, but bulges out from the mean spheroid in some places (under the continents and some of the deep er parts of the ocean) and is depre ed beneath the mean spheroid in other places. geol. An abbreviation of geology. geolatry (je-ola-tri), n. [ To this succeeded astrolatry in the East, and geolatry in the West. Sir G. Cox, Mythol. of Aryan Nations, I. 95. geologer (jē-ol'ō-jer), n. [ geology + -er1.] A geologist. [Rare.]