ellipse
Speech parts
1. ellipse - Noun
2. ellipse - Verb
3. Ellipse - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
Omission. See Ellipsis.
The elliptical orbit of a planet.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.
The Ellipse is the most simple of the Conic Sections, most known, and nearest of Kin to a Circle, and easiest describ'd by the Hand in plano.
the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant
Accordingly, Jupiter's orbit appears almost stationary as the pink ellipse at top left.
A circle is an ellipse with an eccentricity of zero, meaning that the two foci coincide with each other as the centre of the circle.