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Oblate   Listen
adjective
Oblate  adj.  
1.
(Geom.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
2.
Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
Oblate ellipsoid or Oblate spheroid (Geom.), a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis; an oblatum. Contrasted with prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.






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