The Earth is 21 kilometres, or 0.3 per cent, wider from east to west than from northto south. Astronomers had been confident that their calculations of this oblatenesswere fairly accurate.
Examples of 'oblateness' in a sentence
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We find that these positions are affected by relativistic, oblateness, and radiation factors.
Nakone Bello, Jagadish Singh 2015, 'On the Stability of L4,5 in the Relativistic R3BP with Oblate Secondary and RadiatingPrimary', Advances in Astronomyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/489120. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
From the experiments, the effects of oblateness on the increase of resistance to wave and current are elucidated.
Takahiro Kumagai, Sayaka Nakajima 2012, 'Experimental Study on Bed Load Transport of Shell Fragment-Mixed Sand under Waves',International Journal of Ocean and Climate Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1260/1759-3131.3.2.85. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)