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Prolate

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; - opposed to oblate.

(2):

(v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Prolate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/prolate.html. 1828.