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sphericity

The English word “sphericity” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The quality of being spherical, being a sphere.
  2. The ratio of the surface area of a given particle to the surface area of a sphere with the same volume.

Etymology

From spheric + -ity. In the geometrical sense, defined by the geologist Hakon Wadell in 1935.

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