oblongum

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English

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Noun

oblongum (plural oblonga)

  1. (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for oblongum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Adjective

oblongum

  1. inflection of oblongus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular