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Meanings of oblate in anglès

Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles.

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Examples for "pumpkin-shaped"
Examples for "pumpkin-shaped"
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Amid inflatable ghosts and pumpkins in all shapes and sizes, hundreds of spectators crowd around a singer wearing a pumpkin-shaped hat.
Reuters
Usage of oblate in anglès
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He came back with a handful of dark green oblate leaves, chewing something.
Outlander
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When Sext was over Durtal went to rejoin the oblate.
En Route
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At this junction two of our Brothers died, a lay Brother and an oblate.
Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul; religious of La Trappe
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Alterative optical and mechanical explanations are offered for the oblate shapes of aphakic eyes.
Pubmed
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The results of the measures thus obtained confirmed the theoretical expectation of the oblate form.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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He weighed it in his hand, an oblate spheroid, difficult to serve, harder to return.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
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The oblate idea was rather fervid and naive, but I kept my feelings to myself.
Unfinished desires: a novel
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And the oblate went up to his cell, while Durtal went towards the large pond.
En Route
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Monodisperse ULV reform on heating of the oblate ellipsoids.
Pubmed
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The oblate bowed his head and did not reply.
En Route
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As the crew stepped onto the moving roadway, an oblate sun rouged away night's bruises.
Nova
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The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid flattened at the poles.
Wired
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The license plate is just an oblate blur, overwhelmed by the glow of the taillight.
Snow Crash
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You look like the oblate and your rumps too.
The ginger man
15
Be a Benedictine Father or oblate, a black Friar.
The Cathedral
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Instead, the Earth is more like an oblate spheroid.
Wired
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Oblate through the time