Definition of prolate Prolate
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What does prolate mean?
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Adjectiveprolate, prolater, prolatest |
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| prolate - having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis" | ||
| watermelon-shaped | ||
| oblate, pumpkin-shaped having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles | ||
| rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" | ||
| prolate - rounded like an egg | ||
| egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid | ||
| rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- prolate (a.)
Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. - prolate (v. t.)
To utter; to pronounce.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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prolate
prō′lāt, adj. extended lengthwise: having the diameter between the poles longer than at right angles to it, as a spheroid.—ns. Prolāte′ness, Prolā′tion, a bringing forth: pronunciation: delay: (mus.) a division. [L. prolatus, pa.p. of proferre, to bring forward—pro, forth, ferre, to bear.]
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