oblate
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Dr Dimitris Stamatellos, reader in astrophysics at UCLan, said these young planets are oblate spheroids - spheres squashed from the top and the bottom but bulging in the middle.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
But because the earth is an oblate spheroid, the sea level at the Equator is some 14 miles farther from the center of the earth than the sea level at the North Pole.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2023
These rapid rotators spin so fast that their shapes are “flattened” into what we call oblate spheroids.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The track, called "Flatline," samples a NdGT speech in which he talks about the Earth being an "oblate spheroid," which honestly does sound suspicious.
From The Verge ● Jan. 26, 2016
The crucial dispute between Cartesians and Newtonians was over the shape of the Earth: Newton predicted an oblate ellipsoid, or flattened, Earth, while the Cartesians had predicted a prolate ellipsoid, or egg-shaped, Earth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
