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prolate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prolate  \Pro"late\,  a.  [L.  prolatus,  used  as  p.  p.  of  proferre 
  to  bring  forth,  to  extend;  pro  +  latus,  p.  p.  See  {Pro-},  and 
  {Tolerate}.  ] 
  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  {spheroid}  (Geom.),  a  figure  generated 
  by  the  revolution  of  an  ellipse  about  its  major  axis.  See 
  {Ellipsoid  of  revolution},  under  {Ellipsoid}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prolate  \Pro*late"\,  v.  t. 
  To  utter;  to  pronounce.  [Obs.]  ``Foun-der-ed;  prolate  it 
  right.''  --B.  Jonson 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  prolate 
  adj  1:  having  the  polar  diameter  greater  than  the  equatorial 
  diameter;  "a  prolate  spheroid  is  generated  by 
  revolving  an  ellipse  about  its  major  axis"  [syn:  {watermelon-shaped}] 
  [ant:  {oblate}] 
  2:  rounded  like  an  egg  [syn:  {egg-shaped},  {elliptic},  {elliptical}, 
  {oval},  {ovate},  {oviform},  {ovoid}] 




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