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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Prolate (0.00858 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: prolate
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Prolate
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.
[1913 Webster]
Prolate cycloid. See the Note under
Cycloid.
Prolate ellipsoid or
Prolate spheroid (Geom.), a figure
generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major
axis. Contrasted with
oblate spheroid. See
Ellipsoid of revolution
, under
Ellipsoid.
[1913 Webster]
Prolate
\Pro*late"\, v. t.
To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.]
“Foun-der-ed; prolate it
right.” --B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]
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