oblate

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Dr Dimitris Stamatellos, reader in astrophysics at UCLan, said these young planets are oblate spheroids - spheres squashed from the top and the bottom but bulging in the middle.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

But no sight was as foreign as the sun’s oblate disk, which hugged the horizon, traveling not up or down but sideways.

From Scientific American • Oct. 15, 2019

These rapid rotators spin so fast that their shapes are “flattened” into what we call oblate spheroids.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The track, called "Flatline," samples a NdGT speech in which he talks about the Earth being an "oblate spheroid," which honestly does sound suspicious.

From The Verge • Jan. 26, 2016

According to Newton’s theory, the centrifugal force of the Earth’s spin should result in a slight flattening at the poles and a bulging at the equator, which would make the planet slightly oblate.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson