About The Word Ellipse
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Ellipse
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What's The Definition Of Ellipse?
[n] a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ellipse: oval Related Terms | Find terms related to Ellipse: arc | bow | catacaustic | catenary | caustic | circle | conchoid | crook | curl | curve | diacaustic | festoon | hook | hyperbola | lituus | oval | ovoid | ovule | parabola | sinus | tracery See Also | circle | conic | conic section Ellipse In Webster's Dictionary \El*lipse"\, n. [Gr. ?, prop., a defect, the inclination
of the ellipse to the base of the cone being in defect when
compared with that of the side to the base: cf. F. ellipse.
See {Ellipsis}.]
1. (Geom.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular
curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a
circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its
opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is
the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis.
See {Conic section}, under {Conic}, and cf. {Focus}.
2. (Gram.) Omission. See {Ellipsis}.
3. The elliptical orbit of a planet.
The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun; The dark
Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse. --Tennyson.
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