flattening
oblateness
ellipticity

Keeping low, he cut across the open ground, flattening himself against the side wall of the house.

But, he said, "We have seen a flattening of growth in recent years."

Flattening a hand on her chest, she seemed to be speaking more to herself than to him.

Flattening you with a helm was just about the only possible course.

House prices are then seen flattening out in the latter months of 2010.

The gradual flattening of the ball continued over the years.

It’s not a flattening of demand, after all; there will still be growth.

Flattening against the wall, he peered around the edge of the door to see inside.

The flattening of our democracy can only lead to a slippery road.

The flattening can be seen in the recent performance of Treasury yields.

Flattening himself into the earth, he heard the rush of the fragments above his body.

Well, you need to keep an eye on the flattening of the yield curve.

Flattening the pipe would shut off the flow of oil.

More serious flattening may be permanent, but it will not affect a baby's brain or development.

One character, Cat, recalls flattening two 6-year old boys when she was 4.

The dog gets its revenge by knocking down the door and flattening the man.

Second, the information society leads to a flattening of hierarchies.

But, he added: "We will see a flattening of the defense budget.

These moves led to a further flattening of the 2/10-year yield curve.

Flattening the top of the island to provide a foundation was difficult and required blasting.

Now there is a sameness about them, a flattening of affect.

Flattening against the bare side wall, he heard again, muffled, the activity in the house next door.

But this flattening of relationships is unlike anything we've called "friendship" before.

Flattening himself under another scrub oak, he caught his breath.

I began to assign meaning to the flattening of lines during my fifth week.

This oblateness resulted from a rotational period of just over nine hours.

At larger distances the effect of this oblateness becomes negligible.

They spin, and vary in their degree of oblateness.

This last quantity is related to the oblateness as follows:

The nucleus is spherical in shape, showing no indication of oblateness.

Another (much less significant) effect is solar oblateness.

Oblateness The ratio of a planet's polar to its equatorial diameter.

(Other explanations considered included a slight oblateness of the Sun.)

The observed oblateness corresponds to a rotation period of 10 hours, not to the 79 days observed.

However, a better approximation that takes into account the primary's oblateness and the satellite's mass is:

Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness.

Much more recently, better measurements of the oblateness of Mars have been made by using radar from the Earth.

Explorer I gathered and transmitted data on atmospheric densities and the earth's oblateness.

Geodetical observations from the expedition proved Earth's oblateness.

However, due to the oblateness of the Earth, this lunar eclipse may have actually been (barely) a partial eclipse.

It varies slightly from pole to equator due to its rotation, which induces an oblateness of order 10 parts per million.

Lower oblateness of the primary alters its gravitational field in such a way that different possible resonances are spaced more closely together.

That coefficient is referred to as the term, and accounts for the flattening of the poles, or the oblateness, of the Earth.

Smaller contributions are also made by the sun's oblateness and by the effects of general relativity that are well known for Mercury.

Perturbing forces caused by the oblateness of the Earth will also change the shape (called the "eccentricity") of the orbit.

The oblateness of the Earth has important effects of the orbits of near Earth-satellites.

Just such an occultation took place on April 8, 1976 by Mars, which allowed the oblateness of the planet's outer atmosphere to be measured.

For example, the oblateness of a sphere of freely flowing material is often explained in terms of centrifugal force.

The nuclear quadrupole moment is associated with non-spherical charge distributions, and is a measure of flatness or oblateness.

The orbital plane is ideally constant, but is usually subject to small perturbations caused by planetary oblateness and the presence of other bodies.

The constant depends on the ellipticity of the equation and the connected open region.

It is not perfectly spherical, but has a projected ellipticity of 0.12.

This is because of the ellipticity of the Moon's orbit.

Hidden in the ellipticity, a message of longing coyly revealed itself.

Note that ellipticity only depends on the highest-order terms.

The focus of an ellipse is increasingly off-center with increasing ellipticity.

Light reflected by a metal at non-normal incidence will generally have its ellipticity changed as well.

This smearing tends to make small objects more round, destroying some of the information about their true ellipticity.

It is not hard to see that needs to be of even order for strong ellipticity to even be an option.

This relationship is derived by defining the ellipticity of the polarization as:

This is an efficient and low cost method of reducing ellipticity and astigmatism.

However in calculating the ellipticity corrections it was necessary to determine the variation of density with radius.

Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness.

Compression, in astronomy is the deviation of a heavenly body from the spherical form, called also the ellipticity.

We now generalize the notion of ellipticity.

The ellipticity can now be written as:

(Strong ellipticity would furthermore require the symbol to be positive-definite.)

Typically, the intrinsic ellipticity is much greater than the shear (by a factor of 3-300, depending on the foreground mass).

Although ΔA is usually measured, for historical reasons most measurements are reported in degrees of ellipticity.

The KSB method measures the ellipticity of a galaxy image.

The shear is proportional to the ellipticity.

Image moments cannot generally be used to measure the ellipticity of galaxies without correcting for observational effects, particularly the point spread function.

Based on the known ellipticity of the Earth, Euler predicted that it would have a period of 305 days.

Since , boundedness and ellipticity of the bilinear form apply to .

Nor is it affected by fibre ellipticity or by fibre curvature.