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ellipticity

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ELLIPTICITY

El `lip *tic "i *ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. ellipticité.]

Defn: 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

Note: Some writers use ellipticity as the ratio of the difference of the two semiaxes to the minor axis, instead of the major. Nichol.

New American Oxford Dictionary

ellipticity

el lip tic i ty |iˌlipˈtisitē, ˌelip- əˌlɪpˈtɪsədi | ▶noun the condition of being elliptic.