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1. oblateness
Wikipedia definition
2. FlatteningFlattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid 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.
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