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Meaning of "oblateness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OBLATENESS

oblateness  [ɒbˈleɪtnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OBLATENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oblateness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OBLATENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Flattening

Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity, or oblateness. The usual notation for flattening is f and its definition in terms of the semi-axes of the resulting ellipse or ellipsoid is The compression factor is b/a in each case. For the ellipse, this factor is also the aspect ratio of the ellipse. There are two other variants of flattening and when it is necessary to avoid confusion the above flattening is called the first flattening. The following definitions may be found in standard texts and online web texts...

Definition of oblateness in the English dictionary

The definition of oblateness in the dictionary is the state of having an oblate shape.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OBLATENESS


airtightness
ˈɛətaɪtnəs
cognateness
ˈkɒɡneɪtnəs
connateness
ˈkɒneɪtnəs
definiteness
ˈdɛfɪnɪtnəs
explicitness
ɪkˈsplɪsɪtnəs
exquisiteness
ɪkˈskwɪzɪtnəs
finiteness
ˈfaɪnaɪtnəs
inappropriateness
ˌɪnəˈprəʊprɪɪtnəs
inchoateness
ɪnˈkəʊeɪtnəs
indefiniteness
ɪnˈdefɪnɪtnəs
innateness
ɪnˈeɪtnəs
insensateness
ɪnˈsɛnseɪtnəs
irateness
aɪˈreɪtnəs
mediateness
ˈmiːdɪeɪtnəs
ornateness
ɔːˈneɪtnəs
plicateness
ˈplaɪkeɪtnəs
prolateness
ˈprəʊleɪtnəs
straitness
ˈstreɪtnəs
up-to-dateness
ˌʌptəˈdeɪtnəs
watertightness
ˈwɔːtəˌtaɪtnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OBLATENESS

oblanceolate
oblast
oblate
oblately
oblation
oblational
oblatory
obligable
obligant
obligate
obligated
obligately
obligati
obligation
obligational
obligative
obligato
obligator
obligatorily
obligatoriness

WORDS THAT END LIKE OBLATENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of oblateness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oblateness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OBLATENESS

Find out the translation of oblateness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oblateness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oblateness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

achatamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

oblateness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

oblateness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفلطح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сплюснутость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oblateness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

oblateness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aplatissement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oblateness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abplattung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偏平率
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

편평도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oblateness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dẹt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

oblateness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

द्विरुग्णता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

basıklık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

schiacciamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oblateness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сплюснутость
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oblateness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πεπλατυσμένο σχήμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oblateness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oblateness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oblateness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oblateness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OBLATENESS»

The term «oblateness» is normally little used and occupies the 140.232 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OBLATENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oblateness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oblateness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oblateness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBLATENESS»

Discover the use of oblateness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oblateness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Numerical Lunar Theory
Then, substituting for X, Y, Z, their values given above, we obtain, Oblateness- force in X = { — r2 + 5 (sin. to . x + cos. to . z)* } x (cos. to . x — sin. to . z). Oblateness-force in Y = { — rz + 5 (sin. m . x + cos. w . zf } x y. Oblateness-force in Z = { —3^ ...
Sir George Biddell Airy, 1886
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Researches on the Evolution of the Stellar Systems ...: The ...
424 CONCLUDED OBLATENESS OF THE PLANET URANUS. Observer _ Oblateness Remarks HERscHEL, 1781-1792 Longer axis of planet extends in No measures of oblateness. Philos. > the plane of the orb. of the Sat. Trans, 1798, p.
Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, 1910
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The capture theory of cosmical evolution, founded on ...
424 CONCLUDED OBLATENESS OF THE PLANET URANUS. Remarks No measures of oblateness. Philos Trans., 1798, p. 71 120 diameters on 5n., 24cm. refrac at Dorpat. 150 diameters on 7n. 60 diameters on 6n. 25n., fine series of ...
Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, 1910
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Was Einstein Right?: Putting General Relativity to the Test
The contribution of such an oblateness to the perihelion shift of Mercury would be about half an arcsec- ond per century. Because the radar measurements of the shift agreed with general relativity to about four hundredths of an arcsecond ...
Clifford M. Will, 1993
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Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space ...
The acceleration of the Earth due to its own oblateness in the presence of the point'mass Moon is approximately 5 x 10“11 times the Newtonian acceleration of a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite (semi-major axis a x 26,560 km).
Theodore D. Moyer, 2005
6
Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students
Although the gravitational field of a perfectly spherical planet depends only on the distance from its center, oblateness causes a variation also with latitude, that is, the angular distance from the equator (or pole). This is called a zonal variation.
Howard Curtis, 2013
7
Orbits: 2nd Order Singularity-free Solutions
The measured perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit includes the effects of Earth's coordinates, general relativity and planetary gravitation attractions as well as solar gravitational oblateness (Shapiro 1999; Hill et al. 1974). The agreement  ...
Guochang Xu, Jia Xu, 2013
8
Formation of the Solar System: A New Theory of the Creation ...
Table 2.1 Parameters of the Earth's oblateness by degree measurement data Author Year a, m e ee )t D'Alambcrt 1800 6, 375, 553 l/334.00 Valbe 1819 376, 895 l/302.78 Everest 1830 377, 276 1/ 300.81 Eri 1830 376, 542 l/299.33 Bessel  ...
V.I. Ferronsky, S.V. Ferronsky, 2013
9
Universe: The Solar System
Oblateness and Rotation Even a casual glance through a small telescope shows that Jupiter and Saturn are not spherical but slightly flattened or oblate. (You can see this in Figures 12-1 and 12-2.) The diameter across Jupiter's equator ...
Roger Freedman, Robert Geller, William J. Kaufmann, 2010
10
The Orbital Evolution of Extrasolar Planets After Formation
2.7.4 Application to GJ 876 Saturn's oblateness dominates the precession of the pericenters of the system's close small satellites. The Sun's oblateness, however, despite its significance in general relativistic computations (Iorio, 2005), ...
Dimitri George Veras, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OBLATENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oblateness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Icarus asteroid makes close approach to Earth
This also makes Icarus unique in that, like Mercury, the effects of general relativity and solar oblateness (how much the Sun varies from ... «Armenpress.am, Jun 15»
2
Icarus makes closest approach in nearly 50 years
This also makes Icarus unique in that, like Mercury, the effects of general relativity and solar oblateness (how much the Sun varies from ... «Sen, Jun 15»
3
Was This Past Weekend's Lunar Eclipse Really Total?
It similarly uses the Earth's radius at 45 deg (and otherwise the oblateness is ignored), and increases the Earth's radius by 75km. For this ... «Universe Today, Apr 15»
4
Saturn Day Is Shorter Than Measurements By Space Probes, New …
Second, they will analyze and take note the planet's oblateness, or when a planet flattens, and starts showing bulge on the equator as it spins. «STGIST, Mar 15»
5
Cubist Saturn
The visual combination of Saturn's oblateness, the varying opacity of its rings and the shadows cast by those rings, sometimes creates ... «Astronomy Now Online, Feb 15»
6
SWARM is drawing the Earth's magnetic field in 3D
Furthermore, the mission will investigate how the Earth's slight oblateness affects the force and intensity of gravity from one location to another. «Nanowerk, May 14»
7
May is prime time for observing Saturn and rings
Apart from the magnificent rings the planet's most striking feature is its flattened shape, its oblateness. This portrait looking down on Saturn and ... «Astronomy Now Online, May 14»
8
Landmarks—The Curved Space around a Spinning Black Hole
The Kerr metric has just two parameters, mass and angular momentum, but astrophysical objects, Israel says, have “different oblateness, ... «Physics, Feb 14»
9
Your guide to the night sky in December with North Staffordshire …
How much a planetary body bulges at its equator is known as its oblateness. The difference between Jupiter's polar diameter and its equatorial ... «Stoke Sentinel, Nov 13»
10
Five myths about the moon
The moon exhibits very slight oblateness, but more important is the fact that the “side” of the moon that faces Earth is bit larger than the side turned away from us. «EarthSky, Jul 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Oblateness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oblateness>. Apr 2024 ».
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