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Ellipse

ELLIPSE, n. ellips'. An ellipsis.

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Meaning

ELLIPSE, n. ellips'. An ellipsis.

Related meanings

DESCRIPTIV,E, a. Containing description; tending to describe; having the quality of representing; as a descriptive figure; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.

Ell

ELL, n. [L. ulna.] A measure of different lengths in different countries, used chiefly for measuring cloth. The ells chiefly used in Great Britain are the English and Flemish. The English ell is three feet and...

Ellipsis

ELLIP'SIS, n. [Gr. an omission or defect, to leave or pass by.] 1. In geometry, an oval figure generated from the section of a cone, by a plane cutting both sides of it, but not parallel to the base. 2. In gra...

Ellipsoid

ELLIPS'OID, n. [ellipsis and Gr. form.] In conics, a solid or figure formed by the revolution of an ellipse about its axis; an elliptic conoid; a spheroid.

Ellipsoidal

ELLIPSOID'AL, a. Pertaining to an ellipsoid; having the form of an ellipsoid.

Elliptic

ELLIP'TIC ELLIP'TICAL, a. Pertaining to an ellipsis; having the form of an ellipse; oval. The plants move in elliptical orbits, having the sun in one focus, and by a radius from the sun, they describe equal ar...

Elliptically

ELLIPTICALLY, adv. According to the figure called an ellipsis. 1. Defectively.

I is the ninth letter,and the third vowel of the English Alphabet. We receive it through the Latin and Greek from the Shemitic jod,je, or ye, in Greek iwra,whence our English word jot. The vowel in French, and...

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