[
US
/ˈɑbɫeɪt, ɑˈbɫeɪt/
]
NOUN
- a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
ADJECTIVE
- having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
How To Use oblate In A Sentence
- The earth is actually best approximated as an oblate spheroid, meaning that it is flattened at the poles.
- An oblate spheroid of these dimensions would occupy a volume of 4.7 m.
- Did you know that both prolate and oblate ellipsoids pack more efficiently than spheres? The Future of Theoretical Cosmology
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences led the world in measuring the Earth's shape, proudly determining it to be an oblate spheroid.
- Kerr geometry uses something called oblate spheroidal coordinate system.
- In it he stated, without proof, that the Earth is an oblate spheroid, supporting Newton against the rival Cassinian view.
- Nor is there much evidence to support the idea that the vast majority of churchgoing Catholics are eager to become Benedictine oblates.
- And as the subtitle promises the themes it will explore are the intersections of acedia with the writer's marriage -- especially with her husband's illness and death; with monks, who come in both because Norris first encountered the term acedia in the writings of the desert fathers and because she's a Benedictine oblate and thus has found that participating in the monastic life as a lay person has been for her a primary means of combating acedia; and the writing life, both Norris and her late husband are published poets. The Wine Dark Sea
- A toom purse makes an oblate merchant.
- A number of finite-strain studies from natural shear zones show oblate geometries.