oblate
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1. oblate - Noun
2. oblate - Adjective
3. oblate - Verb
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Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
One of the Oblati.
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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
A rotating star in hydrostatic equilibrium is an oblate spheroid up to a certain (critical) angular velocity.
Because of its rapid rotation, the planet's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator).
Besides the torus -shaped terminal, he applied for hemispherical and oblate terminals.
His prediction that the Earth should be shaped as an oblate spheroid was later vindicated by other scientists.
He had become a secular oblate of the Abbey's monastic community, making his final oblation on February 16, 1990, less than three months before his death.