oblate

ob·late ¹  (blt, -blt)

adj.

1. Having the shape of a spheroid generated by rotating an ellipse about its shorter axis.

2. Having an equatorial diameter greater than the distance between poles; compressed along or flattened at the poles: Planet Earth is an oblate solid.

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[Probably New Latin obltus : Latin ob-, toward; see ob- + Latin (pr)ltus; see prolate.]

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oblately adv.

oblateness n.

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oblate

Adjective

Geom (of a sphere) flattened at the poles: the oblate spheroid of the earth [New Latin oblatus lengthened]

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oblate

a person resident and serving in a monastery but not under vows; a lay religious worker.

See also: Catholicism

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	oblate - a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deity
Adj.	1.	oblate - having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles pumpkin-shaped rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" prolate, watermelon-shaped - having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis"