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Meanings of flattening in English
Measure of compression between circle to ellipse or sphere to an ellipsoid of revolution.
Synonyms
Examples for "ellipticity"
Examples for "ellipticity"
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.
Usage of flattening in English
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.
6
Severe stomatitis and glossitis with flattening of papillae were another common finding.
7
At the moment we finished flattening the grass, it began to rain.
8
No conversation is carried out at a reasonable volume, flattening the drama.
9
It was a field day on explosive, flattening and expanding bullets, etc.
10
A flattening and inverted curve hits banks' profitability and willingness to lend.
11
Wierzbowski's suit camera crumbled followed by the immediate flattening of his biomonitors.
12
In fact, he found that his hands were flattening out, like fins.
13
He fell to the ground, his bottom painfully flattening a snowberry bush.
14
She backed away from this grotesquerie, flattening herself against the steam-wetted tiles.
15
Forgot about it until it hit her, flattening her to the ground.
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All very redolent of the Guinness ad about one man flattening counties.
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Translations for flattening
Portuguese
Catalan
Flattening through the time
Flattening across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Rare