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