Defn: A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
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 immediate inference from this was that, the degree diminishing with increasing latitude, the earth must be a prolate spheroid.
A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
The prolate or lemon-like shape is caused by the gravitative pull of the earth, balanced by the centrifugal whirl.
Each disk has become prolate in the same sort of fashion as yielding globes do.
Round and round the two bodies went, pulling each other into tremendously elongated or prolate shapes, and so they might have gone on for a long time.
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