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prolate

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Adjective

HYPHEN

pro=late

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective prolate has 2 senses

prolate(a = adj.all) watermelon-shaped - having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis"

Antonym: oblate

prolate(s = adj.all) egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid - rounded like an egg; Array

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CIDE DICTIONARY

prolate, 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.

prolate, v. t.

To utter; to pronounce. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

prolate, adj.
1 Geom. (of a spheroid) lengthened in the direction of a polar diameter (cf. OBLATE(2)).
2 growing or extending in width.
3 widely spread.
4 Gram. = PROLATIVE.

Derivative

prolately adv.

Etymology

L prolatus past part. of proferre prolong (as PRO-(1), ferre carry)

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ROGET THESAURUS

prolate

Voice

VB utter, breathe, give utterance, give tongue, cry, ejaculate, rap out, vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth, whisper in the ear.

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