Definition of "oblately" [oblately]

• In an oblate manner. (adverb)

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• "It was a real breakthrough when Newton discovered that the gravitational forces of the Sun and Moon acting on an oblately spheroidal Earth would produce a wobble of the Earth that, at least qualitatively, could account for the precession of the Equinoxes."
• "The result of these expeditions was the determination that the globe is oblately spheroidal."
• "He believes that he can outline this system, this universe, and prove that it has the shape of an irregular globe, oblately flattened to almost disklike proportions, and divided at one edge -- a bifurcation that is revealed even to the naked eye in the forking of the Milky Way."