Oblate Definition

ŏblāt, ŏ-blāt
oblates
adjective
Having the shape of a spheroid generated by rotating an ellipse about its shorter axis.
American Heritage
Flattened at the poles.
An oblate spheroid.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • pumpkin-shaped
Antonyms:
noun
oblates
A person dedicated to the religious life; esp., a person living in or associated with a religious community but not bound by vows.
Webster's New World
A member of one of various religious communities whose members are bound by less stringent vows than those required of monastic orders.
American Heritage
A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Oblate

Noun

Singular:
oblate
Plural:
oblates

Origin of Oblate

  • From Late Latin oblātus (oblatus), from Latin ob (“in front of, before") + lātus (“broad, wide"), (modelled after prōlātus (“extended, lengthened")).

    From Wiktionary

  • From French oblat and its source, post-classical Latin oblatus "˜person dedicated to religious life', a noun use of the past participle of offerre "˜to offer'.

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably New Latin oblātus Latin ob- toward ob– Latin (prō)lātus prolate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Medieval Latin oblātus from Latin past participle of offerre to offer offer

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Oblate Sentence Examples

  • In the other extreme case the oblate spheroid becomes a circular disk when e = i, and then the capacity C2 = 2a17r.

  • The shape of the planet is a markedly oblate spheroid with a polar diameter some 10% smaller than that at the equator.

  • 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.

  • He set to work to restore some of these ruins, to reconstitute and pacify the Papal State, to put an end to the Schism, which showed signs of continuing in Aragon and certain parts of southern France; to enter into negotiations, unfortunately unfruitful, with the Greek Church also with a view to a return to unity, to organize the struggle against heresy in Bohemia; to interpose his pacific mediation between France and England, as well as between the parties which were rending France; and, finally, to welcome and act as patron to saintly reformers like Bernardino of Siena and Francesca Romana, foundress of the nursing sisterhood of the Oblate di Tor de' Specchi (1425).

  • To show the cause of this motion, let BQ represent a section of an oblate spheroid through its shortest axis, PP. We may consider this spheroid to be that of the earth, the ellipticity being greatly exaggerated.

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Words Starting With

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