- traditions), an
oblate is a
person ****ociated with a
Benedictine monastery or
convent who is
specifically dedicated to God and service.
Oblates are individuals...
-
revolution (spheroid) respectively.
Other terms used are ellipticity, or
oblateness. The
usual notation for
flattening is f {\displaystyle f} and its definition...
-
ratio of an
oblate spheroid/ellipse, c : a, is the
ratio of the
polar to
equatorial lengths,
while the
flattening (also
called oblateness) f, is the ratio...
- The
Oblate (French: L'Oblat) is the last
novel by the
French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans,
first published in 1903. The
Oblate is the
final book in Huysmans'...
- The
Missionary Oblates of Mary
Immaculate (OMI) is a
missionary religious congregation in the
Catholic Church. It was
founded on
January 25, 1816, by...
- Mars is the
fourth planet from the Sun. It is also
known as "the Red Planet",
because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like
rocky planet...
-
hermit Emperor Henry II (6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), Holy
Roman Emperor and
oblate of the
order Bononio of
Lucedio (died 30
August 1026),
Abbot of Lucedio...
-
Better approximations can be made by
modeling the
entire surface as an
oblate spheroid,
using spherical harmonics to
approximate the geoid, or modeling...
- of the
distortion is the
flattening (sometimes
called ellipticity or
oblateness),
which can
depend on a
variety of
factors including the size, angular...
- the word 'ellipsoid' is
understood to mean '
oblate ellipsoid of revolution', and the
older term '
oblate spheroid' is
hardly used. For
bodies that cannot...
