OBLONG

In Elementary Geometry, a rectangle, or right-angled parallelogram, whose length is greater than its breadth. An oblong spkiriod hi generated bj the revolution of an ellipse about its longer a\is. nnd therefore elongated at the poles; hence the temi is used ill contradistinction to oblate spheroid, which denotes a spheroid flattened at the poles. The oblong spheroid is otherwise called the prolate spheroid. [s. 857]