Oblate ellipsoid

Related to Oblate ellipsoid: Prolate ellipsoid, 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.

See also: Oblate

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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(b) Oblate ellipsoid with circular cross section with diameter a and shortened radius b.

Dissipative Coupling of Fluid and Immersed Objects for Modelling of Cells in Flow

For numerical illustration of the contact behaviour, the shape sample consisting on a rotational oblate ellipsoid defined by size parameters a = b = 2 and c = 1 will be investigated.

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Then a large slotted-waveguide array with an oblate ellipsoid radome, as shown in Fig.

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For an oblate ellipsoid particle (with [R.sub.b] > [R.sub.a]), an effective radius [R.sub.e] is defined as:

Temperature effect on the nanostructure of SDS micelles in water

However, if the minor axis is horizontal, it is referred to as an oblate ellipsoid. The parabola is in a plane parallel to the side of the cone.

Aspheric lenses: dispense with confidence part 2 C-19559 O/D

My lens, however, was more of an oblate ellipsoid and would not stay in place in my eye if its major axis was horizontal.