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Prolate vs Ellipsoid - What's the difference?

prolate | ellipsoid |

As an adjective prolate

is elongated at the poles.

As a verb prolate

is (obsolete|transitive) to utter; to pronounce.

As a noun ellipsoid is

ellipsoid (surface all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular).

prolate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Elongated at the poles.
    • A cigar is a prolate spheroid.

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (l)

    Verb

    (prolat)
  • (obsolete) To utter; to pronounce.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Prolate it right.
    ----

    ellipsoid

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia ellipsoid) (en noun)
  • (mathematics) a surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (includes the sphere)
  • (geography) Such a surface used as a model of the shape of the earth.
    • Here the geoid is thirty meters below the ellipsoid .

    Derived terms

    * ellipsoid of revolution

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shaped like an ellipse; elliptical.
  • (mathematics) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
  • (botany) Having the tridimensional shape of an ellipse rotated on its long axis.

    • Derived terms

    * ellipsoid geodesic * ellipsoid method * ellipsoid packing * subellipsoid

    Related terms

    * globose * globoid * ovoid * oblong