Oblate: alternatives and connections

A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and…

a magnet in the form of a bar with magnetic poles at each end

Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles.…

Depressed; flattened.

A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a ma…

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points,…

Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface int…

To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portion…

A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, rop…