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 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 Lightguide bulbs come in three shapes — large globe, ellipse, and triangular — and are about 8 inches tall.

From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2022

Ellipses have two centers, or foci; the more elongated the ellipse, the farther apart these foci are.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife