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flattening
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[geodesy]
A measure of how much an oblate spheroid differs from a sphere. The flattening equals the ratio of the semimajor axis (
a
) minus the semiminor axis (
b
) to the semimajor axis.
See also
oblate ellipsoid
semimajor axis
semiminor axis
smoothing
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