Crossword-Solution: PROLATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prolate | a. | Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. |
| Prolate | v. t. | To utter; to pronounce. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROLATE | anagram | LAPORTE |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PROLATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Elongated at the poles | 1 answer |
| Elongated, as a spheroid | 1 answer |
| Extended at the poles. | 1 answer |
| Stretched out at the poles | 1 answer |
| having a polar diameter which is longer than the equatorial diameter | 1 answer |
| prolative | 1 answer |
| elongated | 7 answers |
| Extended | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PROLATE (5)
Hornsby, on the same eclipse, and thence computed the difference of longitude respecting the places of observation, making due allowance for the effect of parallax, and the prolate spheroidal figure of the earth.
Persistent repetition will finally influence the young mind, however gifted, and if Mr Wells had been subject to the discipline of what may be called an efficient education, he might have seen his sphere at the age of twenty-seven as slightly flattened--whether it appeared oblate or prolate is no consequence--and I could not have crowned him with the designation that heads this Introduction.
The prolate or lemon-like shape is caused by the gravitative pull of the earth, balanced by the centrifugal whirl.
Make an elastic globe revolve round a fixed centre outside itself, and it gets pulled into a prolate or lemon shape; the simplest illustrative experiment is to attach a string to an elastic bag or football full of water, and whirl it round and round.
The effect of the revolution is to make both bodies slightly protrude in the direction of the line joining them; they become slightly "prolate" as it is called--that is, lemon-shaped.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1960–2009).