ellipse
Example Sentences
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The moon’s orbit is not a perfect circle around Earth but rather an ellipse, so sometimes it will be closer and farther from our planet.
From New York Times
“We could now open up sites like Jezero due mostly to the inclusion of TRN, which allowed us to target multiple little parking lots within the landing ellipse instead of a giant one.”
From Scientific American
Addressing protesters from a temporary stage constructed on the ellipse, Mr. Giuliani predicted evidence of purported election fraud will emerge and land Democrats in trouble.
From Washington Times
The protest happened on the ellipse, a grassy area near the White House, ahead of Congress holding a joint session later Wednesday to count the electoral votes cast in the presidential contest.
From Washington Times
Instead of its predicted path being a closed ellipse, its orbit was open, indicating that it would never return.
From Scientific American
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
