In Christianity (especially in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Methodist traditions), an oblate is a person who is specifically dedicated to...
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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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Spheroid (redirect from Oblate spheroid)
spheroid 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 Planet"...
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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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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 the...
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Alexandre-Antonin Taché (category Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate)
1894) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author, and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada. Alexandre-Antonin...
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Benedictines (redirect from Oblates of Saint Frances of Rome)
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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Oblate spheroidal coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system that results from rotating the two-dimensional elliptic coordinate...
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mathematics, oblate spheroidal wave functions (like also prolate spheroidal wave functions and other related functions) are involved in the solution of the Helmholtz...
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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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astronomical phenomenon where the poles of a star are brighter than the equator, due to rapid rotation and oblate shape. When a star is oblate, it has a larger radius...
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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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approximations can be made by modeling the entire surface as an oblate spheroid, using spherical harmonics to approximate the geoid, or modeling a region with...
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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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Rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb (redirect from Half oblate octahedrille)
rhombi. It is a dual to the vertex-transitive gyrated tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb. The rhombic pyramidal honeycomb or half oblate octahedrille is a uniform...
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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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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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Trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb (redirect from Oblate cubille)
and Goodman-Strauss call it an oblate cubille. This honeycomb can be seen as a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb, with the rhombic dodecahedra dissected with...
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Milky Way (redirect from The Spiral Arms of the Milky Way)
regard the shape of the Milky Way and the apparent clustering of stars in it as a consequence of the oblate shape and unequal dimensions of the world island...
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Oblate School of Theology is a Catholic graduate school for theological studies and spirituality in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1903 by the...
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Jesuits (redirect from The Jesuits)
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-;...
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Jupiter (redirect from The weight of Jupiter)
one turn in ten hours, Jupiter is an oblate spheroid; it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator. The outer atmosphere is divided into a series...
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Cardinal (Catholic Church) (redirect from Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church)
'cardinal of the Holy Roman Church') is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. Cardinals are created by the pope and typically hold the title...
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Earth ellipsoid (redirect from Earth's oblateness)
an oblate spheroid. In geophysics, geodesy, and related areas, the word 'ellipsoid' is understood to mean 'oblate ellipsoid of revolution', and the older...
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forms of the rhombohedron, oblate (flattened) and prolate (stretched. In the oblate case θ > 90 ∘ {\displaystyle \theta >90^{\circ }} and in the prolate...
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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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Antonia de Oviedo Schöntal (redirect from Oblate Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer)
professed religious and the co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Most Holy Redeemer, an order that she established with the Benedictine Bishop José...
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Saint Joseph (redirect from Joseph the Betrothed)
of the Oblates of Saint Joseph) on 23 January. Pope Francis on 8 December 2020, released the apostolic letter Patris corde on the occasion of the 150th...
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