Category:Prolate

Pro"late, a. Etym: [l. prolatus, used as p. p. of proferre to bring Forth, to extend; pro + latus, p. p. See pro-, and tolerate. ]

Defn: stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction Of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to Oblate. Prolate cycloid. See the note under cycloid. -- prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (geom.), a figure generated by the Revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See ellipsoid of Revolution, under ellipsoid.

Prolate Pro*late", v. t.

Defn: to utter; to pronounce. [obs.] "foun-der-ed; prolate it right." B. Jonson.