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Prolate

//ˈpɹəʊ.leɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Elongated at the poles.

    "A cigar is a prolate spheroid."

Adjective
  1. 1
    rounded like an egg wordnet
  2. 2
    having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To utter; to pronounce. obsolete, transitive

    "Prolate it right."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”).

Etymology 2

From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”).

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