flatness

measure of compression of an ellipse or ellipsoid of revolution; property of having one dimension significantly less than the rest
Thing property Q212750
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flatness

Summary

flatness is a property[1]. flatness draws 123 Wikipedia views per month (property category, ranking #43 of 127).[2]

Key Facts

  • flatness's image is recorded as OblateSpheroid.PNG[3].
  • flatness's instance of is recorded as property[4].
  • flatness's instance of is recorded as form attribute[5].
  • flatness's subclass of is recorded as measure[6].
  • flatness's subclass of is recorded as dimensionless quantity[7].
  • flatness's subclass of is recorded as asymmetry[8].
  • flatness's opposite of is recorded as inverse flattening[9].
  • flatness's opposite of is recorded as elongation[10].
  • flatness's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06h52r[11].
  • flatness's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • flatness's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/flattening[13].
  • flatness's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1102[14].
  • flatness's different from is recorded as pressing[15].
  • flatness's different from is recorded as Flatness[16].
  • flatness's different from is recorded as flatness[17].
  • flatness's defining formula is recorded as f =\frac {a - b}{a}[18].
  • flatness's MathWorld ID is recorded as Flattening[19].
  • flatness's ISQ dimension is recorded as 1[20].
  • flatness's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as flattrykning[21].
  • flatness's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1143[22].
  • flatness's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[23].
  • flatness's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 19444555[24].
  • flatness's in defining formula is recorded as f[25].
  • flatness's in defining formula is recorded as a[26].
  • flatness's in defining formula is recorded as b[27].

Why It Matters

flatness draws 123 Wikipedia views per month (property category, ranking #43 of 127).[2] flatness has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] flatness is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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