ellipse
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“The central space is simply a regular ellipse, and the walls that surround it are vertical,” he would later recall.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
The sun doesn’t sit at the center of Earth’s ellipse but instead at one focus, a point along the long, or “major,” axis.
From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023
It’s almost a circle, with a small but significant deviation from Euclidean perfection that actually makes Earth’s orbit a slightly squashed oval—that is, an ellipse.
From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023
The new decorative bulbs come in three shapes: triangle, ellipse, and globe.
From The Verge • Aug. 26, 2022
Hooke pointed out the error and suggested that the correct orbit followed by the falling object, assuming it could pass through the solid Earth without resistance, would be a kind of shrinking ellipse.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing ellipse
Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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A Brief History of Time
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