Usually means: Elongated along its rotational axis.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. prolate: Merriam-Webster
  2. prolate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prolate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prolate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prolate: Vocabulary.com
  6. prolate: Wordnik
  7. prolate: Wiktionary
  8. prolate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. prolate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. prolate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Prolate, prolate: Dictionary.com
  12. Prolate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Prolate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. prolate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. prolate: Rhymezone
  16. Prolate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. prolate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. prolate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. prolate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. prolate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. prolate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prolate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. prolate: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prolate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prolate)

adjective:  Elongated at the poles.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To utter; to pronounce.

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