Definitionadj. having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter
Last update: September 23, 2015
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From his views on centrifugal force he deduced the oblate figure of the earth, estimating its compression, however, at little more than one-half its actual amount. [Please select]
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(He disengages himself) Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange. [Please select]
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Oblate: flattened; applied to a spheroid of which the diameter is shortened at two opposite ends. [Please select]
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In Paris the earth is painted for us longish like an egg, and in London it is oblate like a melon. [Please select]
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Some are oblate spheroids with the aperture near the top, some are purse-like and suspended, and some are regular cups. [Please select]
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The egg is an elongated oval, compressed almost throughout its entire length, very blunt at both points; a long cone, the apex broadly truncated and rounded off obtusely, sealed on half a very oblate spheroid. [Please select]
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The figure that fulfils these conditions is an oblate spheroid, the axis of the generating ellipse coinciding with the polar diameter of the body. [Please select]
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