Ellipse Synonyms

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Synonyms for Ellipse

oval
An egg-shaped or elliptical form or figure.
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conic-section
A curve, either an ellipse, circle, parabola, or hyperbola, produced by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone
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curve
The definition of a curve is a smooth bend.
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circle
The definition of a circle is a curved line that is the same distance from the center all the way around and connects at the point where it began.
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parabola
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hyperbola
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diagonal
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trapezium
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rectangle
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ellipsoid
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equilateral-triangle
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polygon
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Ellipse Sentence Examples

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

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

  • Its earliest form is a rough ellipse transfixed by an upright line, cp. In various Semitic alphabets this has been altered out of recognition, apparently from the writing of the symbol in cursive handwriting without lifting the pen.

  • The angle cp is termed the eccentric angle, and is geometrically represented as the angle between the axis of x (the major axis of the ellipse) and the radius of a point on the auxiliary circle which has the same abscissa as the point on the ellipse.

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