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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective prolate has 2 senses
- prolate(a = adj.all) watermelon-shaped - having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis" Antonym: oblate
- prolate(s = adj.all) egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid - rounded like an egg;
CIDE DICTIONARY
prolate, a. [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, v. 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.
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)