OBLONG
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 32
In Elementary Geometry, a rectangle, or right-angled parallelogram, whose length is greater than its breadth. An oblong spheroid is generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis, and therefore elongated at the poles; hence the term is used in contradistinction to oblate spheroid, which denotes a spheroid flattened at the poles. The oblong spheroid is otherwise called the prolate spheroid. [s. 851]
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