Meanings of elliptic orbit in English

Four hours later, they recovered her quarterdeck section from the aphelion of a long elliptic orbit.

Suppose, for a moment, that it is denied that the sun moves in an elliptic orbit!

It "disturbs," as the astronomer says, the elliptic orbit which would otherwise have been pursued.

Barbican's theory of the elliptic orbit was unfortunately too well grounded to allow a single reasonable doubt to be expressed regarding the Projectile's fate.

A figure titled "A 'family' of elliptic orbits with constant rotational momentum" (Fig.

Chamberlin and Moulton's hypothesis, the secondary nuclei in them must revolve in a great variety of elliptic orbits.