Sentences with oblate
ob·late
O o - The earth is an oblate sphere
- An oblate spheroid
- While monastic vocations decline, the number of monastic lay affiliates, or oblates, grows.
- In the course of the twelfth century, Benedictine houses abandoned the practice of receiving children as oblates, to be educated in the cloister as a preliminary to profession.
- Kerr geometry uses something called oblate spheroidal coordinate system.
- Stanbrook, which also has 120 lay people, or oblates, is well-known for having Britain's oldest private printing press, the Abbey Press, established in 1876.
- In general, the strain ellipsoids have oblate strain symmetry with some data points in the prolate field.
- A number of finite-strain studies from natural shear zones show oblate geometries.
- Bede was offered as an oblate to the monastery of Wearmouth when he was only seven years old and spent his whole life as a monk.
- The earth is actually best approximated as an oblate spheroid, meaning that it is flattened at the poles.
- To become a monk you had to first become an oblate, unless you were at the age old enough to become a novice.