Prolate /(?)/

Pro·late

Prolate

a.
  1. Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.

Phrases & Compounds
Prolate cycloid
See the Note under Cycloid.
Prolate ellipsoid [or] spheroid
a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. Contrasted with oblate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

Prolate

v. t.
  1. To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.]