A prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Did you know that both prolate and oblate ellipsoids pack more efficiently than spheres?. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of Theoretical Cosmology] Reference
A spherical shell of dust that falls to a gravitating body will become distended into a prolate ellipsoid. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
This is why stars will not leave the Milky Way galaxy decause of the prolate distribution of matter and DM above and below. From Wordnik.com. [Milky Way Has a "Squashed Beachball"-Shaped Dark Matter Halo | Universe Today] Reference
This same tidal force had earlier locked Jinx's rotation to Primary and forced the moon into an egg shape, a prolate spheroid. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Known Space]
Source: KIAA; the paper published in the February 25 issue of Nature is "WASP-12b as a prolate, inflated and disrupting planet from tidal dissipation" arXiv:1002.4608 is the preprint. From Wordnik.com. [Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death | Universe Today] Reference
Recently, we have measured fetal congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation volume by sonographic measurement using the formula for a prolate ellipse (length X height X width X 0.52). From Wordnik.com. [Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid] Reference
Lessons include the role of parabolas in punting, how defenders instinctively use the Pythagorean theorem to prevent touchdowns and why the shape of a football - a prolate spheroid - helps quarterbacks throw spirals. From Wordnik.com. [Videos demonstrate some of the science behind football] Reference
Each disk has become prolate in the same sort of fashion as yielding globes do. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
A few stars now had pierced the blue, and in the east there shone brightly a prolate moon. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
What do diminutive yellowish-bluish prolate spheroids smell like just before they go rancid?. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
Tidally locked satellites tend to be slightly prolate sphereoids, rather than uniform spheres, IIRC. From Wordnik.com. [Discover Blogs] Reference
Mr. Murphy invites attention and objection to some assertions, as that the earth is prolate, not oblate. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Two spheres revolving round each other can only remain spherical if rigid; if at all plastic they become prolate. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
The prolate or lemon-like shape is caused by the gravitative pull of the earth, balanced by the centrifugal whirl. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Technically shaped, at least roughly, as a prolate spheroid, the football's nickname of pigskin explains a lot of its history. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
Both receptors can be modeled as prolate ellipsoids, similar in their short semi-axes but markedly different in their long semi-axes. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Round and round the two bodies went, pulling each other into tremendously elongated or prolate shapes, and so they might have gone on for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Mr Wells 'own sight of our blindness, our complacent acceptance of the sphere as an oblate or prolate spheroid, might be, he hoped, another of the marvels which we should come to accept through the medium of romance. From Wordnik.com. [H. G. Wells]
A discussion arose as to the interpretation of these measures, some affirming that they indicated a prolate, others an oblate spheroid; the former figure may be popularly represented by a lemon, the latter by an orange. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
The filters use a unique technology - doping of sodium silicate glass with prolate silver nanoparticles - that produce filters with an extraordinary flexibility to meet demands for all spectral ranges, contrast conditions and designs. From Wordnik.com. [optics.org all content] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Intrauterine pressure results from the literature were combined with our data to form trajectories for uterine wall thickness, volume and tension for each woman using the prolate ellipsoid method and the groups were compared at 20, 25 and 30 weeks gestation. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The pofitive manner in which that author aflerts that the earth is a prolate fphe - roid, the arrogance with which he challenges refutation, and above all the erroneous theories which he has built on this aflertion, feem to require all doubts to be removed by a mathematical demonftration. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
In the earlier days of her formation, while still in a state of mobility, she had been probably a perfect sphere in shape, but, under the influence of terrestrial gravity operating for uncounted ages, she was drawn at last so much towards the centre of attraction as to resemble somewhat a prolate spheriod. From Wordnik.com. [All Around the Moon] Reference
A massive wide receiver to pluck the prolate spheroid from the sky. From Wordnik.com. [SBNation.com - All Posts] Reference
Whenever there came a need of thinking beyond Phi-oo’s by no means limited scope, this prolate-headed person was in request, but he invariably told the conclusion to Tsi-puff, in order that it might be remembered; si-puff was ever the arsenal for facts. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
"prolate ambling spintail". From Wordnik.com. [The Read/Reading/To Be Read Meme] Reference
It will be made prolate (FIG. From Wordnik.com. [The Tides] Reference
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