Definition of "ellipticity" [el•lip•tic•i•ty]

• Deviation from perfect circular or spherical form toward elliptic or ellipsoidal form. (noun)
• The degree of this deviation. (noun)

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• "AFAIU the ellipticity of an egg is due to the pressures from the surrounding egg canal in which it is transported in during its assembly."
• "He granted that the proposition connected mathematically the inverse square law to the ellipticity of the course of the planets."
• "(Sometimes circularity is called or confused with ellipticity, but I prefer the former.)"