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Prolate

adjective
1.
Having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter.  Synonym: watermelon-shaped.
2.
Rounded like an egg.  Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid.



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"Prolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... moon does turn the same face towards us; i.e. has ceased to rotate with respect to the earth (if ever it did so). The stability of this state of things was shown by Lagrange to depend on the shape of the moon. It must be slightly egg-shape, or prolate—extended in the direction of the earth; its earth-pointing diameter being a few hundred feet longer than its visible diameter; a cause slight enough, but nevertheless sufficient to maintain stability, except under the action of a ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge


Words linked to "Prolate" :   oblate, cucumber-shaped, rounded


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