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eccentricity
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[geometry, geodesy]
A measure of how much an ellipse deviates from a circle, expressed as the ratio of the distance between the center and one focus of an ellipsoid to the length of its semimajor axis. The square of the eccentricity (e²) is commonly used with the semimajor axis a to define a spheroid.
