- Deviation from perfect circular or spherical form toward elliptic or ellipsoidal form.
- The degree of this deviation.
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ellipticity
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the property possessed by a rounded shape that is flattened at the poles
Synonym: oblateness
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- Krassowski ellipsoid of 1938 (geodesy)
- Bessel ellipsoid of 1841 (geodesy)
- ellipsometer (optics)
- Fischer ellipsoid of 1960 (geodesy)
- axial ratio
- international ellipsoid of reference (geodesy)
- Milutin Milankovich (Yugoslavian mathematician)
- flattening
- Keith Edward Bullen (Australian applied mathematician and geophysicist)
- Sir Edward Sabine (British geophysicist)
- Optical activity (organic chemistry)
- climatic change
- Antenna (radio communications)
- month (time)
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