| 单词 | prolate |
| 例句 | The crucial dispute between Cartesians and Newtonians was over the shape of the Earth: Newton predicted an oblate ellipsoid, or flattened, Earth, while the Cartesians had predicted a prolate ellipsoid, or egg-shaped, Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The eye cornea is approximated as a prolate spheroid with an axis that is the eye, where a = 8.7 mm and c = 9.6 mm. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z When the distance from the center of the wheel to the ant is greater than the radius of the wheel, his path of motion is called a prolate cycloid. Calculus, Vol 2 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z The embankments rose like the prolate rock formations in Chinese scroll paintings, massive looming shapes half lost to fog. “Poetry” 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Texas, West Texas and Texas Tech surely reserve their foremost excitement for when the ball is a prolate spheroid. With Texas Tech in the Final Four, Lubbock wakes up a basketball town 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But the models predict that early in the universe, emerging galaxies were prolate—longer than they were wide, Faber says. Galaxy simulations are at last matching reality—and producing surprising insights into cosmic evolution 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Give two examples of objects with prolate spheroid shapes. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z A graph of a prolate cycloid is shown in the figure. Calculus, Vol 2 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Instead, the icy body is either shaped like a stretched football, called an “extreme prolate spheroid,” or like two rocks joined together. The next stop for NASA's Pluto spacecraft may be a duck-shaped space rock 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The only thing more unpredictable is fans of the prolate spheroid. Georgia editorial roundup 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z But as the forward pass was introduced, the ball grew more aerodynamic and became more pointed and prolate. How a Digital Pigskin Could Have Saved Us From Deflategate 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Write the equation of the prolate spheroid centered at the origin that describes the shape of one of the magnets. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z In this project we look at two different variations of the cycloid, called the curtate and prolate cycloids. Calculus, Vol 2 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z A football is a prolate spheroid, and it’s shaped that way because that’s also the shape of an inflated pig’s bladder, which is what the first footballs were made of. How the Football Got Its Shape 2013-12-30T10:45:51Z Zipping a prolate spheroid into the hands of a leaping man 20 yards downfield, at the split-second he’s open: That’s hard. The Carelessness of Mark Sanchez 2013-10-10T19:50:33Z The prolate spheroid will not land identically, and it is this randomness that keeps the coders at EA Sports up at night. How a Digital Pigskin Could Have Saved Us From Deflategate 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Write the equations of the prolate spheroids that model the shape of the buzzing stunt magnets. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Lessons include the role of parabolas in punting, how defenders instinctively use the Pythagorean theorem to prevent touchdowns and why the shape of a football - a prolate spheroid - helps quarterbacks throw spirals. Videos demonstrate some of the science behind football 2010-11-15T22:26:03Z But as the football evolved — and was constructed of cowhide and rubber — it got even more prolate, which made it easier to carry and easier to throw. How the Football Got Its Shape 2013-12-30T10:45:51Z Two spheres revolving round each other can only remain spherical if rigid; if at all plastic they become prolate. Pioneers of Science A lemon is a prolate spheroid, a grape is a prolate spheroid, and so is a watermelon. How a Digital Pigskin Could Have Saved Us From Deflategate 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Murphy invites attention and objection to some assertions, as that the earth is prolate, not oblate. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Those prolate, sagging spirals of thought, those grapevine twists of irremediable whim, that mind shimmering like a poplar tree in sun and wind—jetting and spouting like plumbing after a freeze-up—'tis beyond me. Shandygaff A few stars now had pierced the blue, and in the east there shone brightly a prolate moon. The War in the Air The prolate or lemon-like shape is caused by the gravitative pull of the earth, balanced by the centrifugal whirl. Pioneers of Science A mathematician would call the shape of the modern-day football a prolate spheroid, which is just a fancy way to say that it is longer in one direction than it is in the other. How a Digital Pigskin Could Have Saved Us From Deflategate 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z He left this with the rank of prolate, in 1828 was secretary to the nuncio at Paris and was made vice-legate of Bologna shortly afterwards. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Each disk has become prolate in the same sort of fashion as yielding globes do. Pioneers of Science Round and round the two bodies went, pulling each other into tremendously elongated or prolate shapes, and so they might have gone on for a long time. Pioneers of Science The effect of the revolution is to make both bodies slightly protrude in the direction of the line joining them; they become slightly "prolate" as it is called—that is, lemon-shaped. Pioneers of Science |
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