| 单词 | compression of the poles |
| 释义 | > as lemmascompression of the poles 3. compression of the poles: the flattening of a planet at the poles, making it an oblate spheroid. ΚΠ 1814 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. II. i. ix. 179 The compression of Jupiter amounts to a fourteenth part of his longer diameter. 1849 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (ed. 8) iv. 34 Of ascertaining the compression of Jupiter's spheroid. < as lemmas |
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