What's the difference between prolate and prorate?

Prolate


Definition:

  • (a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.
  • (v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The uterine volume was measured in 30 patients 24 hours before hysterectomy by ultrasonography using the prolate ellipsoid formula.
  • (2) Native human Glu-plasminogen (Glu1-Asn791) was previously shown to have a radius of gyration of 39 A and a shape best described by a prolate ellipsoid [Mangel, W. F., Lin, B., & Ramakrishnan, V. (1990) Science 248, 69-73].
  • (3) Uterine volume, based on the ultrasound data, was calculated, utilizing the formula for a prolate ellipsoid, before and after treatment.
  • (4) Three commonly used prostate volume measurement techniques were analyzed: planimetry, prolate ellipse volume calculation (HWL), and an ellipsoid volume measurement technique.
  • (5) The left ventricle was modeled as a three-dimensional, prolate ellipsoidal shell.
  • (6) Several previous studies had indicated that S1 is a highly extended protein which can be modeled by a prolate ellipsoid with an axial ratio of 10 to 1.
  • (7) The length-to-width ratios of bacteriophage T2 and T4 heads and stereometric angles specifying the prolate icosahedral T2 capsid were evaluated on electron micrographs recorded from samples prepared by a variety of methods.
  • (8) The frictional ratio (2.14) is consistent with a prolate ellipsoid of axial ratio 24, corresponding to an apparent length and width of 516 and 21.5 A, respectively.
  • (9) The mutations of the three core genes (genes 67, 68, and 22) affect the width mainly by lateral outgrowths of the prolate particle, although small and large isometric particles are also found.
  • (10) This feature may be important in morphogenesis since the mean volume of prolate vesicles is larger than that of spherical vesicles.
  • (11) Assuming constancy of surface area and approximating red cell shapes by both prolate and oblate ellipsoids of revolution, values are determined for cell shape factor and volume under a variety of conditions.
  • (12) Consequently, more adsorption occurred at larger surface hydrophobicities, smaller size molecules, and for prolate orientation of ellipsoidal molecules.
  • (13) It had a prolate head and non-contractile tail and produced large haloes around plaques.
  • (14) In addition, although phase microscopic image analysis revealed that virtually all of the cells displayed a squamous morphology within 1 hour after exposure to FBS or TGF-beta 1, observations made 48 to 72 hours later showed the presence of clusters of small prolate spheroid-shaped cells surrounded by many involucrin-positive squamous-appearing cells.
  • (15) The paper explains how the formulas for calculating the surface area of the prolate spheroid, which a nucleus resembles, can be changed by suitable substitutions into formulas based on measured diameters l and k [mm] of the nucleus approach side surface, magnified 3.000 times, and on a mixed cyclometric function dependent on the axial ratio.
  • (16) Because high solvent content and weak diffraction are indicative of an extended flexible structure, we examined the molecular shape of the recombinant CD4 with ultracentrifugation and found that it has an axial ratio of roughly 6, when modeled as a prolate ellipsoid.
  • (17) The octamer is a prolate ellipsoid 110 angstroms long and 65 to 70 angstroms in diameter, and its general shape is that of a rugby ball.
  • (18) This area is about twice that calculated from a prolate ellipsoid model for prothrombin.
  • (19) Very simple formulas are deduced for the NSAR of a prolate spheroid or cylinder with R greater than 6.
  • (20) Vt is analogous to the equilibrium volume (V0), determined as the volume intercept of the logarithmic passive pressure-volume (P-V) relationship using LV volume estimated from LV weights (V0 nl = 37.6 + 4.4 ml), or the volume intercept of the linearized P-V relationship calculated from a prolate spheroidal model using measured minor and major diameters (V0 l = 44.5 + 3.5 ml).

Prorate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only children with normal hearing and a prorated Full Scale IQ of at least 80 (WISC-R) were considered.
  • (2) The advantages of regression-based estimates of full-length IQ over those derived from conventional prorating are discussed.
  • (3) Differences in mean prorated numbers of colds per year and durations of illness were 0.09 plus or minus 0.06 (plus or minus 1 standard error) and 0.11 plus or minus 0.24, respectively, favoring ascorbic acid over the placebo.
  • (4) If a regularly administered WISC-R subtest cannot be administered properly or is invalidated, the manual suggests that a supplementary subtest, either Digit Span or Mazes, can serve as a substitute, but perhaps prorating the sum of scaled scores on the remaining subtests would be better.
  • (5) When faced with a choice, clinicians should attach greater validity to prorated estimates of a child's WISC--R Verbal IQ.
  • (6) Analysis indicated that the use of Digit Span as a substitute for the regularly administered Verbal subtests was inferior to the use of the comparable proration method.
  • (7) IAG has offered to give up some London airport slots as well as so-called prorate agreements that let airlines carry rivals’ passengers on connecting flights.
  • (8) Similar correlations for the total group of 10 to 16 year olds (N = 22) were performed (prorating the steady state plasma levels of the slow metabolizers), and these too were highly significant.
  • (9) Correlations of learning scores on the Aronson Shopping List with WAIS or WAIS--R subtests and prorated IQs were significant.
  • (10) Proration consistently resulted in higher validities (i.e., correlations between scores on the variant Verbal, Performance, or Full Scale and scores on the corresponding original scale), whereas substitution almost as consistently resulted in higher reliabilities, but in both cases the differences were small.
  • (11) If Rodriguez accepts Major League Baseball's ruling he not only loses a prorated portion of his considerable salary, it also puts his entire career in jeopardy.
  • (12) It was found that: (1) the TPT 10 was inadequate for severe damage; (2) the TPT 6 can be used with severe impairment; (3) a method of prorating blocks into time was developed; (4) the TPT 10 and TPT 6 are strongly correlated; (5) there were no order effects when both boards were given; (6) both boards significantly separated controls from brain-damaged subjects; (7) criteria for substitution of the TPT 6 were established; and (8) comparable scales were established for both boards so that an examiner can substitute either TPT for the other.
  • (13) The amount of vaccine preventable disease in personnel assigned to South Korea was similar to that in occupationally blood-exposed employees (5.5 vs. 5.2 hospitalized cases per 1,000 vaccinees) after prorating exposure to risk based on average number of days of exposure to risk over three years.
  • (14) Health care costs, morbidity costs, and nonhealth-sector costs are prorated from national studies to the State or locality.
  • (15) A prorated Performance IQ might be the least depressed measure of potential among these children.
  • (16) Prorated to all 461 300 West German acute hospital beds, 85,000 beds or 26.6 million patient days per year are affected by inappropriate use.
  • (17) This study investigated the merits of substituting the Digit Span subtest for an invalid Verbal Scale subtest versus a proration method in calculating WISC--R Verbal and Full Scale IQ.
  • (18) The study found that the short form did not have significantly lower concurrent validity than the original form; had only slightly lower internal consistency; and had a mean and a standard deviation close enough to those of the original form to allow prorating of short-form scores for interpretation with original form norms.
  • (19) Although relatively few cases of misclassification occurred for either method in relation to Full Scale IQ, the rate of Verbal IQ misclassification by the Digit Span substitution method was significantly greater than with use of its proration.
  • (20) It will prorate the sum of the Verbal or Performance scaled scores when less than the full number of subtests are administered.

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