elliptic, egg-shaped, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate
(adjective) rounded like an egg
prolate, watermelon-shaped
(adjective) having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; “a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
prolate (comparative more prolate, superlative most prolate)
Elongated at the poles.
• oblate
prolate (third-person singular simple present prolates, present participle prolating, simple past and past participle prolated)
(obsolete, transitive) To utter; to pronounce.
• La Porte, LaPorte, Laporte, Platero, Portela, patrole
Source: Wiktionary
Pro"late, a. Etym: [L. prolatus, used as p. p. of proferre to bring forth, to extend; pro + latus, p. p. See Pro-, and Tolerate. ]
Definition: Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid.
– Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
Pro*late", v. t.
Definition: To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.] "Foun-der-ed; prolate it right." B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
