Measure of compression between circle to ellipse or sphere to an ellipsoid of revolution.
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Examples for "flattening"
Examples for "flattening"
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A flattening yield curve, of course, is bad news for the banks.
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This singleminded agenda also has the effect of flattening everything else out.
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The side of his face was crushed; his body was slowly flattening.
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The Huns under Attila had the same practice of flattening the heads.
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Another characteristic feature is the flattening of the surfaces between the striæ.
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The specific mark of this family is the flattening or ellipticity.
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This law, deduced, was the immediate path to the law of orbital ellipticity.
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When these were submitted to calculation, each led to the same value of the ellipticity.
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We also analyze the peak-valley transmittance difference as a function of medium length, ellipticity, and a stigmatism.
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Heat also reduces the overall protein ellipticity, suggesting that reversibly unfolded conformers are more susceptible to phosphorylation.
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Two facts are revealed by the oblateness of the earth: 1.
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To cite but one instance this force is powerless to account for the spheroidal oblateness of certain planets.
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The first flattening came with "The Great Hurricane" of 1897, and no doubt some were tempted to start Darwin No.6.