ellipticity

How To Use ellipticity In A Sentence

• It is not exactly the same face because of the tilt of the Moon's rotational axis to its orbital plane around Earth, and the slight ellipticity of that orbit (the position of the observer on Earth also has a slight effect).
• The orbits of Mercury and Mars have an appearance of ellipticity because the sun does not occupy the central point in the diagram. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
• H. Foster's pendulum-experiments, deducing from them an ellipticity for the earth of 1/289 (_Memoirs R.Astr. Soc. _ vii.); corrected for the length of the seconds-pendulum by introducing a neglected element of reduction; and was entrusted, in 1843, with the reconstruction of the standards of length. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• The increase in the CD signal corresponded to a time-dependent decrease in ellipticity at a wavelength typical for [alpha] helical signals.
• AFAIU the ellipticity of an egg is due to the pressures from the surrounding egg canal in which it is transported in during its assembly. What's the Internet Really Like in Space? | Universe Today
• The ellipticity of the orbit, according to this view, was caused by the planet oscillating about a mean position, -- sinking first into the dense ether, -- then, on account of superior buoyancy, rising into too light a medium. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
• We suggest that the decrease in the enthalpy and loss of ellipticity are caused by the loss of approximately four helical turns of coiled coil that correspond to the N-terminal TM portion of the peptide.
• An application is made to the problem of the tilting mode instability for spheromak without restriction in ellipticity .
• This week, Nathalie Kellens (KULeuven) and Patrick Degryse (Physico-Chemical Geology, KULeuven) classified debris from smithing activities retrieved from the urban and territorial surveys and from the excavations within the city center according to weight, volume, density, mineralogy, chemistry, ellipticity, flatness, position in the smithing hearth and profile of the cakes. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Metallurgical Studies Report 2
• The Elbow actual measurement is more than 8 % of the ellipticity.