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flattening - [geodesy] A measure of how much an oblate spheroid differs from a sphere. The flattening equals the ratio of the semimajor axis minus the semiminor axis to the semimajor axis.
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Source: esri, 21 April 2012 09:37:09, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation
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