Fruit large, regular, oblate or slightly conic; Surface waxy yellow, rarely shaded or blushed, becomes oily or greasy when kept.
For testing the effect of magnetism, an oblate spheroid was made of specially selected soft iron, 3 feet in diameter, weighing nearly a ton.
Section of oblate spheroid of soft iron for whirling machine, showing arrangement for winding central core with wire so as to be able to magnetise it strongly while spinning inside the optical frame.
In the same year, on the night of the Assumption of the Blessed and Glorious Virgin Mary, and after the Te Deum had been sung, died the devout Laic, Nicholas Bodiken, who was an Oblate of our House.
This is a very small variety of the Early Silver-skin, with a small, occasionally roundish, but generally oblate bulb.
The Canada Pumpkin is of an oblate form, inclining to conic; and is deeply and regularly ribbed.
And very possibly time only is required for the sun to become an oblate spheroid, the same as his dependent planets.
It must have become an oblatespheroid flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator, rotating faster and faster as it contracted.
The Archbishop had proposed crossing the Atlantic for his decennial visit to Rome, and also to attend the General Chapter of the Oblate Order.
The mission of the Oblate Fathers, which now extends from the coast of Labrador to the shores of British Columbia, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Sea, was then in its infancy in Canada.
This whirling motion would produce the oblate spheroidical form which they possess, and which as far as I know can not in any other way be accounted for.
They consist of oblate spheroids and are found in many parts of the earth totally detached from the beds in which they lie, as at East Lothian in Scotland.
Like the earth, the other planets in the solar system are similarly oblate and by amounts dependent on the relative velocities of rotation.
When formed, the earth appears to have been a but slightly oblate spheroid, or practically a sphere—the shape which of all incloses the most space for a given surface.
Doing this, the ball assumes an oblate shape, and we can, if we are skilful enough, separate by such rotation a ring from the ball, like that which surrounds Saturn.
The common inference that because the earth is oblate in form, it was originally fluid, is an error, in the light of these facts.
True, a rotating sphere, a few inches in diameter will assume an oblate form only if it is very soft, for example, is composed of freshly kneaded clay or some viscous stuff.
Make an elastic globe rotate, and it bulges out into an oblate or orange shape; as illustrated by the model shown in Fig.
Well-known model exhibiting the oblate spheroidal form as a consequence of spinning about a central axis.
For any other figure, such as an oblate spheroid, this is not exactly true.
The shape, too, offers a distinguishing character, the fruits being more oblate than in any other Duke.
The fruit, similar in size to Large Montmorency, differs from it by being more oblate and irregular, and in having a very deep, wide suture which becomes an indistinct line towards the apex.
Its fruits are more often borne singly, are larger, have a shorter, thicker stem, are more oblate and ripen a little earlier.
The two varieties under comparison may be further distinguished by the more oblatefruits of Centennial, by a more mottled color and by the pits which are longer and more pointed in the newer variety.
There is no escape for us from the inevitable conclusion that our globe received its form, as an oblate spheroid, at a time when it existed throughout as a viscid mass.
These exercises are of the greatest value as connected with modeling when the subjects chosen for invention are comprehended under the sphere, prolate and oblate spheroid, ovoid, cone, etc.
It is well here to suggest making the bits of clay into tiny oblate spheroids, and laying them away to dry so that we may make a group work invention of them to-morrow.
The earth is, therefore, what is technically known as an oblate spheroid; that is, a body of spherical shape flattened at the poles.
The observations of Richer in South America, the theoretical discussions of Newton and Huygens, and the measurements of degrees of latitude in Peru and Sweden demonstrated that the earth is an oblate spheroid.
It follows from Clairaut's theorem that if the earth is an oblate spheroid, its ellipticity can be determined from relative values of gravity and the absolute value at the equator involved in c.
The earth will then have the form of an oblate spheroid, and the intensity of gravity as a form of universal gravitation will vary with position on the surface of the earth.
When the earth's surface was still in a molten state, it would necessarily take the form of a true oblate spheroid, with a compression at the poles due to its speed of rotation, which is supposed to have been very great.
Mr Wells' own sight of our blindness, our complacent acceptance of the sphere as an oblate or prolate spheroid, might be, he hoped, another of the marvels which we should come to accept through the medium of romance.
The Oblate seemed to awake from a long dream, and opening her eyes, she distinctly said, "Mother, what would you have me to do?
The Oblate Brothers say she is over a hundred years old, and truly she might pass for the honourable great-grandmother of all Canada.
But it is said, we have a proof that he did not create it in its present solid form, but in a state of fluidity: because its present shape of an oblate spheroid is precisely that, which a fluid mass revolving on its axis would assume.
The creator, therefore, of a revolving solid, would make it an oblate spheroid, that figure alone admitting a perfect equilibrium.
From his views on centrifugal force he deduced the oblate figure of the earth, estimating its compression, however, at little more than one-half its actual amount.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oblate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
