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OBLATENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oblateness mean?
• OBLATENESS (noun)
The noun OBLATENESS has 1 sense:
1. the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles
Familiarity information: OBLATENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ellipticity; oblateness
Context example:
the oblateness of the planet
Hypernyms ("oblateness" is a kind of...):
bulginess; roundedness (the property possessed by a rounded convexity)
Derivation:
oblate (having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles)
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