what does oblate mean?
OBLATE as NOUN
- Meaning
- a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
Hypernyms(s) oblate is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
OBLATE as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter
- being flattened at the poles
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