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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 293 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ELLIPTICITY , in See also: ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange) astronomy, deviation from a circular or spherical See also: FORM (Lat. forma) form; applied to the elliptic orbits of heavenly bodies, or the spheroidal form of such bodies . End of Article: ELLIPTICITY
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