PROLATED

Verb

prolated

simple past tense and past participle of prolate

Anagrams

• patroled, prodelta

Source: Wiktionary


PROLATE

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



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