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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Celestial mechanics, Circles, Trigonometry, Geodesy
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oblateness  ellipticity  flattening  Inverse Flattening  first flattening
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The property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles WordNet 3.0
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The property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution respectively. Wikipedia
The compression of a circle or sphere into an ellipse or an ellipsoid Wikipedia Disambiguation
A measure of compression between circle to ellipse or sphere to an ellipsoid of revolution Wikidata
A measure of this flattening that is a function of the ellipse's equatorial and polar radii. Wiktionary
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The oblateness of the planet WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
roundedness
measure
dimensionless quantity
DERIVATION
egg-shaped
elliptic
oblate
HAS CAUSE
centrifugal force
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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oblateness, ellipticity
Wikipedia
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flattening
Wikidata
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flattening
Wiktionary
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ellipticity
Wikipedia Redirections
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ellipticity, Flattening factor, Inverse Flattening, Inverse flattening, oblateness
Wikidata Alias
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ellipticity, first flattening, oblateness

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