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  2. Taylor Spatial Frame - Wikipedia

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    A Taylor Spatial Frame on the left leg consisting of metal rings, pins and struts. The Taylor Spatial Frame (TSF) is an external fixator used by podiatric and orthopaedic surgeons to treat complex fractures [1] and bone deformities. The medical device shares a number of components and features of the Ilizarov apparatus.

  3. Ellipsograph - Wikipedia

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    An ellipsograph is a mechanism that generates the shape of an ellipse. One common form of ellipsograph is known as the trammel of Archimedes. [1] It consists of two shuttles which are confined to perpendicular channels or rails and a rod which is attached to the shuttles by pivots at adjustable positions along the rod.

  4. Leg mechanism - Wikipedia

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    the foot has to touch the ground for at least half of the cycle for a two/four leg mechanism [1] or respectively, a third of the cycle for a three/six leg mechanism; minimized moving mass; vertical center of mass always inside the base of support [1] the speed of each leg or group of legs should be separately controllable for steering [6]

  5. Perimeter of an ellipse - Wikipedia

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    An ellipse has two axes and two foci Unlike most other elementary shapes, such as the circle and square , there is no algebraic equation to determine the perimeter of an ellipse . Throughout history, a large number of equations for approximations and estimates have been made for the perimeter of an ellipse.

  6. Flattening - Wikipedia

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    Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution respectively. Other terms used are ellipticity , or oblateness . The usual notation for flattening is f {\displaystyle f} and its definition in terms of the semi-axes a {\displaystyle a} and b {\displaystyle b} of ...

  7. Lateral rotator group - Wikipedia

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    The lateral rotator group is a group of six small muscles of the hip which all externally (laterally) rotate the femur in the hip joint.It consists of the following muscles: piriformis, gemellus superior, obturator internus, gemellus inferior, quadratus femoris and the obturator externus.

  8. Elliptical distribution - Wikipedia

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    An elliptical distribution with a zero mean and variance in the form where is the identity-matrix is called a spherical distribution. [14] For spherical distributions, classical results on parameter-estimation and hypothesis-testing hold have been extended.

  9. Elliptic orbit - Wikipedia

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    In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics, an elliptic orbit or elliptical orbit is a Kepler orbit with an eccentricity of less than 1; this includes the special case of a circular orbit, with eccentricity equal to 0. In a stricter sense, it is a Kepler orbit with the eccentricity greater than 0 and less than 1 (thus excluding the circular orbit).