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Ellipse synonyms

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oval
Anything oval
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  1. Anything oval
  2. An elliptical track, as for racing or athletic events.
  3. An egg-shaped or elliptical form or figure.
conic-section
The intersection of a right circular cone and a plane, which generates one of a group of plane curves, including the circle, ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola.
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  1. The intersection of a right circular cone and a plane, which generates one of a group of plane curves, including the circle, ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola.
  2. A curve, either an ellipse, circle, parabola, or hyperbola, produced by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone
  3. A curve formed by the intersection of a plane with a cone. Conic sections can appear as circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, or parabolas, depending on the angle of the intersecting plane relative to the cone's base.
curve
The graph of a function on a coordinate plane. In this technical sense, straight lines, circles, and waves are all curves.
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  1. The graph of a function on a coordinate plane. In this technical sense, straight lines, circles, and waves are all curves.
  2. (Mathematics) The graph of a function on a coordinate plane.
  3. (Baseball) A curve ball.
Find another word for ellipse. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ellipse, like: oval, conic-section, curve, circle, curve and oval.

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  • It is the envelope of circles described on the central radii of an ellipse as diameters.

  • regular ellipse about 22 m.

  • But since an ellipse can always be constructed with a given centre so as to touch a given line at a given point, and to have a given value of ab(=h/-~ u) we infer that the orbit will be elliptic whatever the initial circumstances.

  • The largest is an ellipse of about 60 by 66 ft., but most of the sesi have a diameter of 20-25 ft.

  • The star thus appears to describe a small ellipse in the sky, and the nearer the star, the larger will this ellipse appear.

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