Flattening
measure of compression of an ellipse or ellipsoid of revolution; property of having one dimension significantly less than the rest From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The flattening, ellipticity, or oblateness of an oblate spheroid is the "squashing" of the spheroid's pole, down towards its equator.
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