 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...plane •itiiated in the horizontal plane, the representation of which is required. See VER»PKCT1VF.. OBLATE, flattened, or shortened, as an •oblate spheroid,...rotation of an ellipse about the. shorter axis. The oblatcuess of the earth refers to the diminution of the polar axis in respect of the equatorial. The... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...any plane situated in the horizontal plane, the representation of which is required. See PERSPECTIVE. OBLATE, flattened, or shortened, as an oblate spheroid,...rotation of an ellipse about the shorter axis. The oblatenc&s of the earth refers to the diminution of the polar axis in respect of the equatorial. The... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...action refers ; as I reminded the master, in which words, the master is used in the accusative case. OBLATE, flattened or. shortened, as an oblate spheroid,...refers to the diminution of the polar axis, in respect to the equatorial. OBLIQUE cases, in grammar, all except tbe nominative. . s • OBSERVATORY, a place... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...plane situated in the horizontal plane, whose perspective representation is required. OBLATE, flatted, or shortened ; as an oblate spheroid, having its axis...the rotation of an ellipse about the shorter axis. OBLATEN ESS, of the earth, the flatness about the poles, or the diminution of the polar axis in respect... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
...tenure of obit or chantry lands is taken away and extinct by I Edw. VI. c. 14. and 15 Car. II. с. д. OBLATE, flattened or shortened ; as an oblate spheroid,...} being formed by the rotation of an ellipse about tue -.Imrter axis. The earth, whose polar diameter is shorter than the equatorial, is an oblate spheroid.... | |
 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1823 - 704 pages
...half an acre. OBLA'T^E (Ecc.) consecrated wafers. O'BLATE (Geom.) an epithet for any figure that is flattened or shortened, as an oblate spheroid, having its axis shorter than its middle diameter. OBLA'TES purgantes (Med.) cakes made of flour, sugar, and purging ingredients ; a usual form in which... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...ascending node; and the other, where the planet descends to the south, is called the descending node. OBLATE, flattened, or shortened, as an oblate spheroid,...shorter than its middle diameter, being formed by of the equatorial. PARALLELOGRAM, in geometry, a quadrilateral right lined figure, whose opposite sides... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...PARHELION, in ucliptick, whereof tho node, where the node physiology, a mock sun, or meteor, in form OBLATE, flattened, or shortened, as an oblate spheroid,...diminution of the polar axis in respect of the equatorial. OBTUSE, signifies blunter dull, in opposition to sharp or acute. Thus we say of a very bright light,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...picture. OBLATA, things offered voluntarily to kings by theirsuhjccts. OBLATE, Flattened, or Shortened, having its axis shorter than its middle diameter,...rotation of an ellipse about the shorter axis. The earth is an oblate spheroid, the polar diameter being shorter than the equatorial 730 mCTIONAKY OK... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...from its diurnal rotation about its axis. Cheyne's Philosoplacal Principles. An OBLATE SPHEROID has its axis shorter than its middle diameter, being formed...the rotation of an ellipse about the shorter axis. OBLATI, Lat., in church history, secular persons who devoted themselves and their estates to some monastery,... | |
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OBLATE, flattened, or shortened, as an oblate spheroid, having its axis shorter than its middle diameter, being formed by the rotation of an ellipse about the shorter axis. The oblateness of the earth refers to the diminution of the polar axis in re spect... 
