Definition of Ellipticities

1. Noun. (plural of ellipticity) ¹

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Definition of Ellipticities

1. ellipticity [n] - See also: ellipticity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ellipticities

elliptic curve
elliptic function
elliptic functions
elliptic geometry
elliptic leaf
elliptical
elliptical amputation
elliptical anastomosis
elliptical galaxies
elliptical galaxy
elliptical recess
elliptically
ellipticals
ellipticine
ellipticines
ellipticities (current term)
ellipticity
elliptization
elliptizations
elliptocytary anaemia
elliptocyte
elliptocytic anaemia
elliptocytosis
elliptocytotic anaemia
elliptograph
elliptographs
ellisite
ellisize
ellisized

Literary usage of Ellipticities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Treatise on Natural Philosophy by William Thomson Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait (1883)
"The values of the surface and central ellipticities are respectively 3 V'w ... If the solid be absolutely incompressible these ellipticities are by § 834 ..."

2. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"ellipticities of terrestrial spheroid. In the last chapter we have seen that the period of the free precession is equal to that of rotation multiplied by ..."

3. A Treatise on Attractions, Laplace's Functions, and the Figure of the Earth by John Henry Pratt (1871)
"The equation of ellipticities (from Art. 115) is In order to integrate this put <f> (a) e = —3 1 a' I ax da" ; Q* Jo Jo j ra rcf d. ..."

4. The Observatory (1891)
"Thus the ellipticities of the layers of a heterogeneous fluid spheroid in ... Since -fche ellipticities were zero when the body was devoid of rotation, ..."

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