Ellipse Synonyms

ĭ-lĭps
A round closed plane figure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. curve
  2. conic-section
A closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. oval

Words Related to Ellipse

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Ellipse Sentence Examples

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

  • The tricky part is making an ellipse at a point different from the origin.

  • When the ellipse becomes a circle, the meridian line becomes a straight line parallel to the axis, and the film passes into the form of a cylinder of revolution.

  • The Greek geometers were perfectly familiar with the property of an ellipse which in the Cartesian notation is x 2 /a 2 +y 2 /b 2 =1, the equation of the curve; but it was as one of a number of properties, and in no wise selected out of the others for the characteristic property of the curve.

  • The nature of the two kinds of branches is best understood by considering them as projections, in the same way as we in effect consider the hyperbola and the parabola as projections of the ellipse.

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