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  2. Roundness - Wikipedia

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    Roundness is the measure of how closely the shape of an object approaches that of a mathematically perfect circle. Roundness applies in two dimensions , such as the cross sectional circles along a cylindrical object such as a shaft or a cylindrical roller for a bearing .

  3. Roundness (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Roundness is an important indicator of the genetic affiliation of a clastic rock. The degree of roundness points to the range and mode of transport of clastic material, and can also serve as a search criterion in mineral exploration, especially for placer deposits. Alluvial debris in major rivers tend to exhibit a high degree of roundness ...

  4. Body roundness index - Wikipedia

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    Body roundness index (BRI) is a calculated geometric index used to quantify an aspect of a person's individual body shape. Based on the principle of body eccentricity, it provides a rapid visual and anthropometric tool for health evaluation. [1] Introduced in 2013, the BRI calculation can be used to estimate total and visceral body fat.

  5. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System

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    However, there has been disagreement on the required size. Early speculations were based on the small moons of the giant planets, which attain roundness around a threshold of 200 km radius. [49] However, these moons are at higher temperatures than TNOs and are icier than TNOs are likely to be.

  6. What to know about body roundness index, an alternative to BMI

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    While body mass index (BMI) has long been a go-to measure of a person's health, used by doctors and health insurers alike, a new approach is taking hold. Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining ...

  7. Voronoi diagram - Wikipedia

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    Let be a metric space with distance function .Let be a set of indices and let () be a tuple (indexed collection) of nonempty subsets (the sites) in the space .The Voronoi cell, or Voronoi region, , associated with the site is the set of all points in whose distance to is not greater than their distance to the other sites , where is any index different from .

  8. Is the Body Roundness Index the New BMI? What it Says ... - AOL

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    The Body Roundness Index is a novel body composition measurement that is touted as being a more accurate alternative to Body Mass Index. In a large retrospective study of 33,000 US adults ...

  9. BMI vs. BRI: Why body roundness may be a better ... - AOL

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    In their crude model, the moderate-stable group had a 61% increased risk for cardiovascular disease compared to the low-stable group, and the high-stable group had a 163% increased risk.