How do you use Ellipticity in a sentence? See 9 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like oblateness or roundedness, plus the exact meaning.
Ellipticity in a sentence
Ellipticity meaning
- The condition of being elliptical (flattened from perfect circular or spherical form)
- A measure of this flattening that is a function of the ellipse's equatorial and polar radii
Synonyms of Ellipticity
Using Ellipticity
- The main meaning on this page is: The condition of being elliptical (flattened from perfect circular or spherical form) | A measure of this flattening that is a function of the ellipse's equatorial and polar radii
- Useful related words include: oblateness, roundedness, bulginess.
- In the example corpus, ellipticity often appears in combinations such as: ellipticity of, the ellipticity, kerr ellipticity.
Context around Ellipticity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ellipticity
- In this selection, "ellipticity" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kerr, weighted, mechanical, kerr, ranging and measure stand out and add context to how "ellipticity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a weighted ellipticity measure is and and kerr ellipticity are changes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ellipticity" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ellipticity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Light reflected by a metal at non-normal incidence will generally have its ellipticity changed as well. (17 words)
This lack of synchronization and the high ellipticity of their orbit may indicate that this is a young star system. (20 words)
Aside from the reversal of handedness, the ellipticity of polarization is also preserved (except in cases of reflection by a birefringent surface). (22 words)
It is important to note that the ellipticity of a galaxy on the sky is only indirectly related to the true 3-dimensional shape (for example, a flattened, discus-shaped galaxy can appear almost round if viewed face-on or elliptical if viewed at an angle). (46 words)
The even and odd Ince-Gaussian modes are given by Bandres and Gutierrez-Vega (2004) : where and are the radial and angular elliptic coordinates defined by : : are the even Ince polynomials of order and degree where is the ellipticity parameter. (40 words)
Ellipticals main The Hubble classification system rates elliptical galaxies on the basis of their ellipticity, ranging from E0, being nearly spherical, up to E7, which is highly elongated. (28 words)
Example sentences (9)
Kerr Rotation and Kerr Ellipticity Kerr Rotation and Kerr Ellipticity are changes in the polarization of incident light which comes in contact with a gyromagnetic material.
Aside from the reversal of handedness, the ellipticity of polarization is also preserved (except in cases of reflection by a birefringent surface).
Ellipticals main The Hubble classification system rates elliptical galaxies on the basis of their ellipticity, ranging from E0, being nearly spherical, up to E7, which is highly elongated.
It is important to note that the ellipticity of a galaxy on the sky is only indirectly related to the true 3-dimensional shape (for example, a flattened, discus-shaped galaxy can appear almost round if viewed face-on or elliptical if viewed at an angle).
KSB calculate how a weighted ellipticity measure is related to the shear and use the same formalism to remove the effects of the PSF.
Light reflected by a metal at non-normal incidence will generally have its ellipticity changed as well.
The even and odd Ince-Gaussian modes are given by Bandres and Gutierrez-Vega (2004) : where and are the radial and angular elliptic coordinates defined by : : are the even Ince polynomials of order and degree where is the ellipticity parameter.
The mechanical ellipticity of the Earth (dynamical flattening, symbol J 2 ) can be determined to high precision by observation of satellite orbit perturbations.
This lack of synchronization and the high ellipticity of their orbit may indicate that this is a young star system.
Common combinations with ellipticity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ellipticity of 4×
- the ellipticity 3×
- kerr ellipticity 2×