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Meanings of prolate in English
Rounded like an egg.
Related terms
Having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter.
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Examples for "oval"
Examples for "oval"
1
In all birds they are oval; in all mammals they are round.
2
The shape is pyriform in 2, oval to roundish in the remainder.
3
The oval contains an internal grating that drifts from right to left.
4
The features were slightly aquiline; the head was oval and admirably poised.
5
Another moment and the chief dancer of the Potlatch entered the oval.
1
The scales smooth; praeanal pores none; pupil elliptical, erect; hinder limbs short.
2
Modern coasters use elliptical loops and reach a maximum g-force of 6g's.
3
And she waved the umbrella in an elliptical curve about her head.
4
If they used elliptical projections, navigators had to constantly recalculate their bearing.
5
There were the elliptical towers and turrets, the cube-shaped domes and battlements.
1
They were ovoid in shape and dotted the screen door in rows.
2
The ovoid had already started coming alive in response to Bin's touch.
3
Two hatches hinged open, and several dozen pale ovoid shapes were ejected.
4
The body during movement is globular or ovoid, without any anterior process.
5
An ovoid slice of the gemlike material slid aside, revealing a doorway.
1
For all this elliptic talk that dazed my mind left obscurity everywhere.
2
They all had eight truck wheels under each, and elliptic steel springs.
3
They may be classed as triangular, lozenge, quadrilateral, star, circular, and elliptic.
4
The pedicels of the tentacles are flattened, or elliptic in section.
5
The circular and elliptic scan methods were developed to detect regularly shaped clusters.
1
Head ovate, rather compact; texture fine and tender; flavor mild and good.
2
Now, short side-shoots are produced, carrying large ovate leaves and bearing flowers.
3
A native species of small growth, with ovate-cordate leaves, and small white flowers.
4
The tail one-fourth the length of the body, covered with uniform ovate quadrangular scales.
5
A trailing-habited shrub, with prickly stems, ovate, spiny-toothed, evergreen leaves, and rather unattractive flowers.
1
He reached out to pat her egg-shaped buttock, then withdrew his hand.
2
When he was through, the egg-shaped stone had a flat oval top.
3
I pointed at the egg-shaped guy in the centre of the group.
4
He glanced down at the smooth, egg-shaped rocks he was kneeling on.
5
Make egg-shaped wells in the mixture with the back of a spoon.
1
These canals terminate in the bladder, an oval-shaped reservoir for the urine.
2
You only want to use big plum tomatoes: the long-looking, oval-shaped ones.
3
The only thing alike about us, I thought, was our oval-shaped sunglasses.
4
Leaves composed of usually three oval-shaped leaflets, and unusually bright of tint.
5
Results: All breast hamartomas had an oval-shaped and a circumscribed margin.
Usage of prolate in English
1
A point outside the rim traces out a prolate cycloid, with a backward loop.
2
A few stars now had pierced the blue, and in the east there shone brightly a prolate moon.
3
This is consistent with a highly asymmetric molecule such as the prolate ellipsoid suggested by the other physical measurements.
4
Small-angle X-ray scattering analysis indicated that the enzyme had a prolate ellipsoidal structure with an ellipsoid cavity in the center.
5
By comparing several candidate space-filling polyhedra, we find that the oblate shapes are preferred over prolate shapes for all volume-to-surface ratios.
6
Moreover, an object thrown straight upward follows the loop of a prolate cycloid, landing slightly to the west of its launch point.
7
Collisions between prolate uranium nuclei are used to study how particle production and azimuthal anisotropies depend on initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions.
8
He left this with the rank of prolate, in 1828 was secretary to the nuncio at Paris and was made vice-legate of Bologna shortly afterwards.
Frequent collocations
Prolate through the time