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Meanings of ellipse in English
Usage of ellipse in English
1
The earth revolves around the sun in an orbit called an ellipse.
2
The figure described by the apex is an irregular oval or ellipse.
3
They were circling us like tiny satellites in a narrowing spiral ellipse.
4
Curved forms, the circle, the oval and the ellipse, are all agreeable.
5
But the obligations of man to the ellipse do not end here.
6
He worked the slide, glide, the ellipse-anyway to express the thought.
7
By a happy stroke of philosophical genius he lit on the ellipse.
8
Now it is remarkable that this apparent path is still an ellipse.
9
We are as infallibly lost by an ellipse as by a parabola.
10
Do we really believe Jason Schwartzmann can compute the area of an ellipse?
11
The narrow part of the ellipse is called the minor axis.
12
A transverse section of the Poti approaches an ellipse in shape.
13
The section inclosed within these limits is in shape somewhat like an ellipse.
14
MORETUS.- Amagnificentobject, 78 miles in diameter, but foreshortened into a flat ellipse.
15
The ellipse of Gauss was found to coincide with its orbit.
16
In this image, the turquoise blue ellipse is our uncertainty footprint.
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Ellipse across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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