Word Meanings - OBLATUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

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• MINOR
  Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode,
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• MINORAT
  A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest
• MINORATION
  A diminution. Sir T. Browne.
• SPHEROIDAL
  Having the form of a spheroid. -- Sphe*roid"al*ly, adv. Spheroidal state , the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees
• MINORATE
  To diminish. Sir T. Browne.
• OBLATENESS
  The quality or state of being oblate.
• MINORESS
  See A
• REVOLUTION
  The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according
• REVOLUTIONIZE
  To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.
• REVOLUTIONIST
  One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.
• DESCRIBER
  One who describes.
• DESCRIBENT
  See GENERATRIX
• OBLATE
  Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. 2. Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. Oblate ellipsoid or spheroid , a
• REVOLUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
• DESCRIBABLE
  That can be described; capable of description.
• MINORITE
  A Franciscan friar.
• SPHEROIDIC; SPHEROIDICAL
  See CHEYNE
• MINORITY
  1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
• REVOLUTIONER
  One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• ALLUMINOR
  An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. Cowell.
• COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
  marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• NOMINOR
  A nominator. Bentham.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• HEMISPHEROID
  A half of a spheroid.