Associations to the word «Prolate»

Wiktionary

PROLATE, adjective. Elongated at the poles.
PROLATE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To utter; to pronounce.

Dictionary definition

PROLATE, adjective. Having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis".
PROLATE, adjective. Rounded like an egg.

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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