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Prolate   Listen
verb
Prolate  v. t.  To utter; to pronounce. (Obs.) "Foun-der-ed; prolate it right."



adjective
Prolate  adj.  Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; opposed to oblate.
Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid.
Prolate ellipsoid or Prolate spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. Contrasted with oblate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of other men who share his illusion; and the company of them take arms against the opposing faction, which is confirmed in the belief that the ball is egg-shaped, that the bulge, in fact, is not "oblate" but "prolate." ...
— H. G. Wells • J. D. Beresford



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