Thesaurus / elliptical
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They don’t live inside your elliptical at home, and if you’re walking down the street alone, they won’t just infest your airways.
THE SAFEST WAYS TO EXERCISE DURING A PANDEMICSARA KILEY WATSONSEPTEMBER 9, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEFor extra credit, you looked at Al-Battani Island, which was elliptical rather than rectangular.
ARE YOU HIP ENOUGH TO BE SQUARE?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSAUGUST 14, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe subjects were shown two at once, and were asked to choose, as quickly as possible, which one was actually the elliptical one.
THIS VISION EXPERIMENT RESOLVED A CENTURIES-OLD PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE - FACTS SO ROMANTICJIM DAVIESAUGUST 14, 2020NAUTILUSIf we discard the elliptical eye-image, though, that should keep your decision from slowing down.
THIS VISION EXPERIMENT RESOLVED A CENTURIES-OLD PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE - FACTS SO ROMANTICJIM DAVIESAUGUST 14, 2020NAUTILUSThe first is that the elliptical shape is abandoned early on in visual processing, replaced with belief that the manhole cover is circular, along with its orientation, color, and so on.
THIS VISION EXPERIMENT RESOLVED A CENTURIES-OLD PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE - FACTS SO ROMANTICJIM DAVIESAUGUST 14, 2020NAUTILUSThe other extreme view is that your mind holds on to the elliptical shape, and you simultaneously sense the ellipse while perceiving the circle.
THIS VISION EXPERIMENT RESOLVED A CENTURIES-OLD PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE - FACTS SO ROMANTICJIM DAVIESAUGUST 14, 2020NAUTILUSIn an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALEREre liueEre I should live is required in full by strict grammar, but Fields verse is frequently elliptical.
THE FATAL DOWRYPHILIP MASSINGERExclamation is an expression of strong emotion in abrupt, inverted, or elliptical phrases.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERThe entrance was a rather large elliptical arch; a man could enter by stooping.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOWORDS RELATED TO ELLIPTICAL
- abrupt
- aphoristic
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- brusque
- clear-cut
- clipped
- close
- compact
- compendiary
- compendious
- concise
- condensed
- crisp
- cryptic
- curt
- cut to the bone
- elliptical
- epigrammatic
- exact
- gnomic
- in a nutshell
- incisive
- laconic
- lean
- neat
- pithy
- pointed
- precise
- sententious
- short and sweet
- snappy
- succinct
- summary
- taut
- to the point
- trenchant
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