1) Elongated at the poles 2) Extended at the poles 3) Rounded 4) Rounded like an egg 5) Watermelon-shaped
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1) Oval 2) Oviform 3) Ovoid 4) Rounded
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having flattened sides due to lengthwise elongation
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• (a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. • (v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.
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• Rounded like an set. • Having a polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter. See also spheroid.
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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. ... <geometry> Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid, a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid...
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Pro'late adjective [ Latin
prolatus , used as past participle of
proferre to bring forth, to extend;
pro + latus , past participle See
Pro- , and
Tolerate . ] Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a
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Pro·late' transitive verb To utter; to pronounce. [ Obsolete] 'Foun-der-ed;
prolate it right.'
B. Jonson. Found on
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[
adj] - having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter
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watermelon-shaped adjective having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; `a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis`
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elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
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