Definition of Ellipses. Meaning of Ellipses. Synonyms of Ellipses

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Definition of Ellipses

Ellipses
Ellipsis El*lip"sis, n.; pl. Ellipses. [L., fr. Gr. ? a leaving, defect, fr. ? to leave in fall short; ? in + ? to leave. See In, and Loan, and cf. Ellipse.] 1. (Gram.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire. 2. (Geom.) An ellipse. [Obs.]
Ellipse
Ellipse 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.

Meaning of Ellipses from wikipedia

- 2\pi .} Ellipses are the closed type of conic section: a plane curve tracing the intersection of a cone with a plane (see figure). Ellipses have many...
- Look up ellipses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ellipses is the plural form of two different English words: Ellipse, a type of conic section in geometry...
- The Ellipse, sometimes referred to as President's Park South, is a 52-acre (21 ha) park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue...
- the n-ellipse is a generalization of the ellipse allowing more than two foci. n-ellipses go by numerous other names, including multifocal ellipse, polyellipse...
- plural is ellipses. The term originates from the Ancient Gr****: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis meaning 'leave out'. Opinions differ as to how to render ellipses in printed...
- the size and orientation of the ellipses on the diagram varied widely depending on the test color. These 25 ellipses measured by MacAdam, for a particular...
- Look up ellipse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In mathematics, an ellipse is a geometrical figure. Ellipse may also refer to: MacAdam ellipse, an area...
- great ellipse is an ellipse p****ing through two points on a spheroid and having the same center as that of the spheroid. Equivalently, it is an ellipse on...
- example, the set of circles is a subset of the set of ellipses; circles can be defined as ellipses whose major and minor axes are the same length. Thus...
- Ellipse is the third studio album from British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap. After returning from a round the world writing trip, Heap completed the...