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Definition of Ellipticities
1. ellipticity [n] - See also: ellipticity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ellipticities
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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