Sentence examples for prolate from inspiring English sources
adjective
Elongated at the poles.
- A cigar is a prolate spheroid.
During his entire coaching career, Heisman's teams won 185 games, lost 68, and tied 18. Heisman was also a Shakespearean actor, and he gained a reputation for using polysyllabic language in coaching; the football, for example, was a "prolate spheroid".
If a and b are greater than c, the spheroid is oblate; if less, the surface is a prolate spheroid.
The prolate is formed by a point on a radius less than that of the rolling circle, such as a point on the spoke of a wheel.
An oblate spheroid is formed by revolving an ellipse about its minor axis; a prolate, about its major axis.
The prolate cycloid is similar to the simple cycloid except that the curve has no cusps and does not intersect the line.
Athletes often write like sportswriters (Tiki Barber: "Your head is tilted back, and your vision is fixed on that damned prolate spheroid tumbling lazily through the air").
