oblate

Example Sentences

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"We were very surprised that they turned out to be oblate spheroids, pretty similar to Smarties."

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

But no sight was as foreign as the sun’s oblate disk, which hugged the horizon, traveling not up or down but sideways.

From Scientific American • Oct. 15, 2019

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