ellipse

Example Sentences

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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 capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2023

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

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