oblate
adjective
flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis (opposed to prolate).
oblately
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a word derived from
oblate.
Example Sentences
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The result of these expeditions was the determination that the globe is oblately spheroidal.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams
Its oblately spheroidal form is such as would be assumed by a rotating mass of matter in the transition from a vaporous and self-luminous or liquid condition to one of cool and dark solidity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
This consists in a thin nebulous matter, which is diffused around the sun to nearly the orbit of Mercury, of a very oblately spheroidal shape.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
