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Oblate adj.

(Geom.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.

Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.

Oblate ellipsoid or Oblate spheroid (Geom.), a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis; an oblatum. Contrasted with prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

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Etymology of 'Oblate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Oblate" Quotes from Famous Books

... which we have very little notion; and according to Sir Isaac Newton, it is by an attraction, the cause of which is as much unknown to us. At Paris you imagine that the earth is shaped like a melon, or of an oblique figure; at London it has an oblate one. A Cartesian declares that light exists in the air; but a Newtonian asserts that it comes from the sun in six minutes and a half. The several operations of your chemistry are performed by acids, ...

— Letters on England • Voltaire

Words linked to "Oblate" : pumpkin-shaped, prolate, religious person