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Mean radius of curvature

The mean radius of curvature of an object is just the average radius of the local surface curvature, integrated over the entire surface. Normalized by the radius of a sphere with equal volume (the mean radius of curvature of a sphere is just the spherical radius), the mean radius of curvature R for an ellipsoid of revolution becomes [43],

The value of R for the triaxial ellipsoid has also been worked out [49].