oblate
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- adjective
- /əˈbleɪt/
- Specialized
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oblato
- So we're a pear shaped oblate spheroid and that's harder to model mathematically.
- oblate spheroid
So we are a pear shaped oblate spheroid.
- So we are a pear shaped oblate spheroid.
Examples
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So whether when you're at the North Pole or the South Pole, because the earth is squashed it's oblate in shape.
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It's called an oblate spheroid, right?
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We talked earlier about the Earth that we live on is an oblate spheroid indeed.
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So we are a pear shaped oblate spheroid.
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There is, it's an oblate spheroid because rotation has sort of flattened it.
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This variation in the strength of gravity, Newton reasoned, should distend Earth into an oblate spheroid: pudgy at the equator, flattened at the poles.
Academic text (1996) -
The Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning its equatorial diameter is larger than its polar diameter.
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Scientists explain that an oblate shape is characteristic of planets like Earth.
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Due to its oblate form, the Earth experiences different gravitational forces at the equator compared to the poles.
Synonyms
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A wide round shape that is flattened at the top and bottom
Antonyms
How Flattened
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word oblate comes from Latin parts ob- and latus, and latus means 'broad', as in the English word lateral. So an oblate shape is like a ball pressed at the top and bottom so it becomes wider around the middle.