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staple 2, verb (oh) and ellipticity (medicine)


staple 2, verb (oh)



2 v [T]
to fasten two or more things together with a staple
staple sth together
::The handouts are all stapled together.
staple sth to sth
::I stapled the order form to the invoice.

ellipticity (medicine)


ellipticity
Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in Reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is 1/29966.

Some writers use ellipticity as the ratio of the difference of the two semiaxes to the minor axis, instead of the major.

Origin: Cf. F. Ellipticite.

Source: Websters Dictionary