ADJECTIVE
- rounded like an egg
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having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter
a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis
How To Use prolate In A Sentence
- Its shape resembles that of a prolate ellipsoid.
- Hydrodynamic and small angle x-ray scattering measurements show that plant MSP has an extended, prolate ellipsoid shape in solution.
- In general, the strain ellipsoids have oblate strain symmetry with some data points in the prolate field.
- The corresponding axial ratios were 1.14 for a prolate ellipsoid and 1.16 for an oblate ellipsoid.
- Recently, we have measured fetal congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation volume by sonographic measurement using the formula for a prolate ellipse (length X height X width X 0.52). Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid
- This ratio suggests that the enzyme-inhibitor complex can be described as prolate ellipsoid, for reasons discussed before.
- Length, diameter, and surface area were calculated assuming that the fruits were prolate spheroids.
- a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis
- A trochoid refers to any of the cycloid, the curtate cycloid and the prolate cycloid.
- The corresponding axial ratios were 1.14 for a prolate ellipsoid and 1.16 for an oblate ellipsoid.