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Meanings of elliptical in English

Rounded like an egg.

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      1
      The scales smooth; praeanal pores none; pupil elliptical, erect; hinder limbs short.
      Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
      2
      Modern coasters use elliptical loops and reach a maximum g-force of 6g's.
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      3
      And she waved the umbrella in an elliptical curve about her head.
      Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
      4
      If they used elliptical projections, navigators had to constantly recalculate their bearing.
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      5
      There were the elliptical towers and turrets, the cube-shaped domes and battlements.
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      6
      The two men conversed in short elliptical sentences, using many technical terms.
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      7
      Each of them is elliptical in form, and surrounded by a crater-wall.
      Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Thei...
      8
      That would certainly fit with Gordon's fondness for the elliptical, the coy.
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      9
      Pupil like that of the shark elliptical, with the long axis vertical.
      Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
      10
      We faced off with a gorgeous gunmetal-gray Porsche with an elliptical body.
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      11
      The cranium is of unusual size, and of a long elliptical form.
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      12
      Go for a walk outside or hop on the treadmill or elliptical.
      Ebony
      13
      Its concentric shells of elliptical strands were ablaze with aggravated neon light.
      The evolutionary void
      14
      Their elliptical curve swung them a mile or so ahead of us.
      Wandl the Invader
      15
      The films hang around uncomplicated folk tales, elliptical romances and chance encounters.
      The Irish Times
      16
      According to NASA, Juno is in a highly-elliptical 53-day orbit around Jupiter.
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