polhode/ˈpɒl.hoʊd/EtymologyBorrowed from Ancient Greek πόλοδος (pólodos), meaning "path of the pole", from πόλος (pólos, “pole, axis”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way, road”).polhode means the wobble of a spinning body. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounThe wobble of a spinning body.“Since the polhodes are the intersection of the surface of the ellipsoid with a cone, Eq. (3), whose apex is at the center of the ellipsoid, and since the cone has two nappes, there are two curves on the ellipsoid for each value of d.”