- 1. a. Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. Source: opted
- 2. v. t. To utter; to pronounce. Source: opted
- 3. adj. having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. rounded like an egg Source: wordnet
- 5. 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. To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.] "Foun-der-ed; prolate it right." B. Jonson. Source: webster
- 6. Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the directionof a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed tooblate. Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid.-- Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by therevolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid ofrevolution, under Ellipsoid. Source: adambom
- 7. a. having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter Source: ecdict
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