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See definition of ellipse on Dictionary.com
  • as incurve
  • as inorbit

synonyms for ellipse

  • arc
  • arch
  • contour
  • loop
  • trajectory
  • ambit
  • bend
  • bight
  • bow
  • camber
  • catenary
  • chord
  • circle
  • circuit
  • circumference
  • compass
  • concavity
  • crook
  • curlicue
  • curvature
  • festoon
  • flexure
  • hairpin
  • half-moon
  • helix
  • horseshoe
  • hyperbola
  • incurvation
  • incurvature
  • meniscus
  • ogee
  • parabola
  • quirk
  • round
  • sinuosity
  • sweep
  • swerve
  • turn
  • vault
  • whorl
  • curvation
  • rondure
See also synonyms for: ellipses
On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ellipse, such as: arc, arch, contour, loop, trajectory, and ambit.

antonyms for ellipse

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    How to use ellipse in a sentence

    NASA’s 1970s Viking Mars missions had an estimated landing ellipse of 280x100km.
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    That spread, Rothermel found, drove outward in a thin, expanding edge along an ellipse.
    WHAT THE COMPLEX MATH OF FIRE MODELING TELLS US ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA’S FORESTSAMY NORDRUMJANUARY 18, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
    That something, according to new simulations from Nesvorny, is most likely a Neptune that slipped outward on an orbit with a just-so shape—one that falls somewhere between a perfect circle and a more severely squashed ellipse.
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    The eccentricity of an ellipse is a measure of how stretched out it is.
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    Similarly, imagine you are presented with an actual ellipse, with the other object being an ellipse-shaped tilted coin.
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    The pattern of light in your eye, on the retina, is, of course, in the shape of an ellipse.
    THIS VISION EXPERIMENT RESOLVED A CENTURIES-OLD PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE - FACTS SO ROMANTICJIM DAVIESAUGUST 14, 2020NAUTILUS
    In an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.
    OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER
    The longer axis of the ellipse is itself in constant motion in the direction in which the earth travels.
    OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER
    The form is an ellipse with axes of 620 and 513 feet, the building covering nearly six acres of ground.
    THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTON
    The disk was an impossibly long ellipse now, surrounded by a vast array of smaller bodies, fragments and contents of the ship.
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    capacitor

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