oblateness
- noun
- /oʊˈbleɪtnəs/
- Specialized
:
oblaticidad
- Moreover, he found a wholly unexpected result: the oblateness measurements implied that the core of the Sun rotates with a period of 12.4 days, about half of the surface rotation period.
Examples
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The Sun's oblateness appears to be constant (SD) OCT 14.
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Gradually, Dicke and his students gave up trying to measure the solar oblateness and concentrated instead on small, latitude-dependent temperature differences over the solar surface.
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The most significant effect that GPS does not account for is a periodic frequency shift due to the Earth's oblateness.
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The Earth's oblateness causes the orbital planes of satellites in low orbits to move gradually.
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Then, some theorists suggested that a pole-equator temperature difference of only 30 degrees Kelvin could account for the apparent oblateness.
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In different years, his derived oblateness seemed to vary: from 45 milli-arcseconds in 1966 to 18.3 in 1983 to a mere 5.6 in 1984.
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But as we have seen, Dicke continued with his solar oblateness experiments into the mid-1980s, tenaciously investigating the puzzling effects he uncovered.
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The rotation causes them to distort into flattened spheroids (for Saturn, this oblateness is noticeable in photographs).
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The Earth's oblateness affects the way satellites orbit around it.
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Scientists study the oblateness of various planets to understand their shapes better.
Synonyms
How flattened a round object like a planet or galaxy is
How Flattened
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word oblateness comes from the parts ob- (meaning 'toward' or 'against') and Latin latus (meaning 'broad' or 'wide'), and it is the noun form of oblate. So oblateness describes being a bit 'flattened' at the poles and 'wider' around the middle, which is the same idea of 'wide' you see in latitude.