Found 2 items, similar to Prolate.
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]