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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles needing additional references, Geodesy, Earth sciences
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Earth ellipsoid  Fat Earth  Earth's ellipsoid  Earth flattening  Earth spheroid
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An Earth ellipsoid or Earth spheroid is a mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a reference frame for computations in geodesy, astronomy, and the geosciences. Wikipedia
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An Earth ellipsoid or Earth spheroid is a mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a reference frame for computations in geodesy, astronomy, and the geosciences. Wikipedia
Ellipsoid of rotation that approximates the figure of the Earth Wikidata
IS A
spheroid
model
PART OF
figure of the Earth
HAS INSTANCE
International Terrestrial Reference Frame
GGOS
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
NAMED AFTER
Earth
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Earth ellipsoid
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Earth ellipsoid
Wikipedia Redirections
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Earth's ellipsoid, Earth flattening, Earth spheroid, ellipsoid of reference, Fat Earth, Fat earth, Mean Earth ellipsoid, reference ellipsoid
Wikidata Alias
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reference ellipsoid

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