• Anglican and Methodist traditions), an oblate is a person who is specifically dedicated to God and to God's service. Oblates are individuals, either laypersons...
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    could. If the ellipse is rotated about its minor axis, the result is an oblate spheroid, flattened like a lentil or a plain M&M. If the generating ellipse...
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  • The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by...
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    Mars (redirect from Oblate Mars)
    Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red...
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  • The Oblate (French: L'Oblat) is the last novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1903. The Oblate is the final book in Huysmans'...
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    Forcades (1966–) Benedictine Oblates endeavor to embrace the spirit of the Benedictine vow in their own life in the world. Oblates are affiliated with a particular...
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  • The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (Latin: Oblati Sancti Francisci Salesii, O.S.F.S.) are a congregation of Catholic priests and brothers who follow...
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  • Oblate Father refers to an Oblate who is a priest, notably as a member of one of the following Catholic orders: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Oblate...
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    Oblate spheroidal coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system that results from rotating the two-dimensional elliptic coordinate system...
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  • The Oblate School of Theology is a Catholic graduate school for theological studies in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1903 by the Missionary Oblates...
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    The Chapel of the Oblates (fr: "Chapelle des Oblats") is a Roman Catholic chapel in Aix-en-Provence. It is located on the Place Forbin, at the top of...
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    Better approximations can be made by modeling the entire surface as an oblate spheroid, using spherical harmonics to approximate the geoid, or modeling...
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  • Oblates of Mary is a name sometimes used for several Roman Catholic religious orders. Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Oblates of the Virgin Mary...
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    The Oblate Sisters of Providence (OSP) is a Catholic women's religious institute founded by Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, and Father James Nicholas Joubert...
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    pharmaceuticals, similar to capsules. Many types of Japanese candy are wrapped in oblate film, which is an edible, thin cellophane made of rice starch. It has no...
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  • The Oblates of the Virgin Mary (Italian: Oblati di Maria Vergine) is a religious institute of priests and brothers founded by Bruno Lanteri (1759–1830)...
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    is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight — called a discus — in an attempt to mark a farther distance...
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    Flattening (redirect from Oblateness)
    revolution (spheroid) respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness. The usual notation for flattening is f{\displaystyle f} and its definition...
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  • In applied mathematics, oblate spheroidal wave functions (like also prolate spheroidal wave functions and other related functions) are involved in the...
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    The Oblates of St. Joseph (Latin: Congregatio Oblatorum S. Ioseph; abbreviated OSJ) is a Catholic religious institute founded on 14 March 1878 by St....
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    tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb. The rhombic pyramidal honeycomb or half oblate octahedrille is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean...
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    The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. As part of their mission to evangelize...
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  • The Oblates of the Holy Spirit (Italian: Suore Oblate dello Spirito Santo; Latin: Institutum Oblatarum Spiritus Sancti; abbreviation: O.S.S.) is a religious...
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    trapezohedra or rhombohedra. Conway, Burgiel, and Goodman-Strauss call it an oblate cubille. This honeycomb can be seen as a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb...
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    Alexandre-Antonin Taché (category Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate)
    – 22 June 1894) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada...
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    The Oblate Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus (Italian: Suore Oblate del Santo Bambino Gesù) are the members of a religious congregation of women founded...
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    of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) Oblates of the Virgin Mary (OMV) Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (OSFS) Order of...
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    {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!} is 6,367,449 m. Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid, not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent;...
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    arc.) An oblate ellipsoid is the three-dimensional surface generated by the rotation of an ellipse about its shorter axis (minor axis). "Oblate ellipsoid...
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  • of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) Oblates of the Virgin Mary (OMV) Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (OSFS) Order of...
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