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Prolate vs Equant - What's the difference?

prolate | equant | see also |

As adjectives the difference between prolate and equant

is that prolate is elongated at the poles while equant is having comparable measurements in all directions; equidimensional.

As a verb prolate

is to utter; to pronounce.

As a noun equant is

the center of a planetary epicycle.

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.
    ----

    equant

    English

    (wikipedia equant)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, astronomy) The center of a planetary epicycle.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having comparable measurements in all directions; equidimensional.

    • Synonyms

    (equidimensional) * equidimensional

    See also

    * oblate * prolate