prolate - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'prolate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Prolate

[ a.]

- Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.

2 . Prolate

[ v. t.]

- To utter; to pronounce.

1 . prolate

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter

Example in sentence:

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