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oblate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Oblate  \Ob*late"\,  a.  [L.  oblatus,  used  as  p.  p.  of  offerre  to 
  bring  forward,  offer,  dedicate;  ob  (see  {Ob-})  +  latus  borne, 
  for  tlatus.  See  {Tolerate}.] 
  1.  (Geom.)  Flattened  or  depressed  at  the  poles;  as  the  earth 
  is  an  oblate  spheroid. 
 
  2.  Offered  up  devoted;  consecrated;  dedicated;  --  used 
  chiefly  or  only  in  the  titles  of  Roman  Catholic  orders 
  See  {Oblate},  n. 
 
  {Oblate  ellipsoid}  or  {spheroid}  (Geom.),  a  solid  generated 
  by  the  revolution  of  an  ellipse  about  its  minor  axis;  an 
  oblatum.  See  {Ellipsoid  of  revolution},  under  {Ellipsoid}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Oblate  \Ob*late"\,  n.  [From  {Oblate},  a.]  (R.C.Ch.) 
  a  One  of  an  association  of  priests  or  religious  women 
  who  have  offered  themselves  to  the  service  of  the 
  church.  There  are  three  such  associations  of  priests, 
  and  one  of  women,  called  oblates. 
  b  One  of  the  Oblati. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  oblate 
  adj  :  having  the  equatorial  diameter  greater  than  the  polar 
  diameter;  being  flattened  at  the  poles  [syn:  {pumpkin-shaped}] 
  [ant:  {prolate}] 




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