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
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
Our star’s lopsided locale within Earth’s orbital ellipse means that over the course of a year, our planet’s motion brings it alternately a bit closer to the sun and then farther away again.
From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023
The Lightguide bulbs come in three shapes — large globe, ellipse, and triangular — and are about 8 inches tall.
From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2022
This figure is an average, as the Earth’s orbit is an ellipse.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
