flatness
Measure of compression of an ellipse or ellipsoid of revolution; property of having one dimension significantly less than the rest
Also known as ellipticity · oblateness · first flattening · flattening · thinness · squatness
- Instance of
- Subclass of
Overview
All data
28 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Defining formula
f =\frac {a - b}{a}
- Different from
- pressing
- Flatness criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: flatness
- flatness
- Opposite of
- inverse flattening criterion used: multiplicative inverse
- elongation
- In defining formula
fsymbol represents: flatnessasymbol represents: semi-major axisbsymbol represents: semi-minor axis
- Quality is the result of process
- pressing nature of statement: sometimes
- centripetal force nature of statement: sometimes
On other databases
9 identifiers linking flatness across the web's reference databases
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/flattening
- Freebase ID/m/06h52r
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDflattrykning
- MathWorld IDFlattening
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)19444555
- OpenAlex IDC19444555
- Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID1143
- Wolfram Language quantity IDFlattening1
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID05077791-n