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Ellipticity  n.  Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is 1:29966. Note: Some writers use ellipticity as the ratio of the difference of the two semiaxes to the minor axis, instead of the major.






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"Ellipticity" Quotes from Famous Books



... they are under the control of the same laws, and owe their existence, motion, and continuance to the same causes as Jupiter and the rest of the planets. They are really planets of wider wandering, greater ellipticity, and less density. They have periodic times less than the earth, and fifty times as great as Neptune. They are little clouds of gas or meteoric matter, or both, darting into the solar system from every side, at every angle with the plane of the ecliptic, becoming ...
— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren



Words linked to "Ellipticity" :   oblateness, bulginess, roundedness, elliptic



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