prolate in English

adjective
1
(of a spheroid) lengthened in the direction of a polar diameter.
This ratio suggests that the enzyme-inhibitor complex can be described as prolate ellipsoid, for reasons discussed before.
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1. Free and forced oscillations of a frictionless liquid with a free surface in prolate spheroidal container geometries are investigated analytically.

2. One is an Aplanat with spherical primary and secondary, and the other is anastigmatic Aplanat with two moderately strong prolate ellipsoids (including primary) and a sphere (FIG.128)

3. These analytic results are then presented in a compact graphical form which provides a useful means for estimating the moduli when the slender inclusions have non-prolate spheroidal geometries.

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5. The Capsid is a protein shell that encases the virus. This creates a small fortress around the genetic material, designed to protect it and to ensure that the virus gets to infect a host.The three basic Capsid shapes are icosahedral, helical, and prolate; however, the shape of Capsids can vary widely.

6. At certain values of N a change in structure of the nucleus occurs, with increase in radius of the core by half a spheron diameter, permitting the cluster to drop back into the mantle, with decrease in R by half a spheron diameter. In the lanthanon region of permanent prolate deformation the rotating cluster is a polyhelion, containing the number of helions permitted by the difference between Z or N and the nearest magic number, and in the actinon region it contains all the nucleons beyond 208Pb, with maximum p10n16.