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oblateness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ellipticity |
| Type of | bulginess, roundedness |
| Derivation | oblate |
the oblateness of the planet.
Examples of oblateness
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Astronomers had been confident that their calculations of this oblateness were fairly accurate.
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The glowing white magnetic network is what gives the sun its extra oblateness during times of high solar activity.
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For example, the oblateness of a sphere of freely flowing material is often explained in terms of centrifugal force.
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Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness.
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Ellipsoids with a differentiated interior-that is, a denser core than mantle-have a lower oblateness than a homogeneous body.
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Solar physicists have known about supergranules and the magnetic network they produce for many years, but only now has RHESSI revealed their unexpected connection to the sun's oblateness.
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Given that oblateness, general relativity's prediction would then not be correct, but instead a discrepancy would exist that Brans-Dicke theory could account for.
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The exact amount is not yet known, but theoretical models suggest the earthquake shortened the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds, due to a decrease in the oblateness of the Earth.
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Due to Uranus's lower oblateness and smaller size relative to its satellites, its moons can escape more easily from a mean motion resonance than those of Jupiter or Saturn.
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- The property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles; "the oblateness of the planet"
- The flattening, ellipticity, or oblateness of an oblate spheroid is a measure of the "squashing" of the spheroid's pole, towards its equator. If is the distance from the spheroid center to the equator and the distance from the center to the pole then
- The state of being oblate; The degree to which something is oblate
- A measure of flattening at the poles of a planet or other celestial body.
- Ratio of the difference between the equatorial and polar radii to the equatorial radius. Oblateness usually is an indication of how fast the body is rotating. [H76]
- The measure of how much a rotating object deviates from being a perfect sphere. A perfect sphere would have an oblateness of 0.0 (0%). The Earth for example is oblate to a factor of 0.0034 (0.34%), while Saturn, the most oblate of the planets has a figure of 0.108 (10.8%). ...
- Departure of a planet from spherical form because of the centrifugal force of the rotation.
