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Prolate

RELATED WORD :

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Adjective
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pro=late

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Prolate has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Prolatea. [L. prolatus, used as p. p. of proferre to bring forth, to extend; pro + latus, p. p. See Pro-, and Tolerate. ].
     Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.  [1913 Webster]
Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid. -- Prolate ellipsoid or Prolate spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. Contrasted with oblate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
Prolatev. t. 
     To utter; to pronounce.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Prolate, adj.
1 Geom. (of a spheroid) lengthened in the direction of a polar diameter (cf. OBLATE(2)).
2 growing or extending in width.
3 widely spread.
4 Gram. = PROLATIVE.

Derivative
prolately adv.
Etymology
L prolatus past part. of proferre prolong (as PRO-(1), ferre carry)

ROGET THESAURUS

Prolate

Voice

VB utter, breathe, give utterance, give tongue, cry, ejaculate, rap out, vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth, whisper in the ear.

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