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disk shape

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Noun1.disk shape - the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure
circularity
roundness - the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular
concentricity - the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another)
eccentricity - a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path


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The HD 142527 disk isn't the first to defy the standard disk shape.
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The drops assumed a variety of symmetrical shapes as they oscillated between a disk shape and a cigar shape.
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During the past decade or so, several researchers have speculated that the young Milky Way may have taken as long as 3 billion years to collapse from a spherical cloud of gas into its present disk shape.
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