ellipse

“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

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

With a distinctly contemporary design, the bulbs come in three shapes — large globe, ellipse, and triangular — and can be paired with a specially designed pendant cord, available in white and black.

From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2022

All of a sudden the ellipse becomes a parabola, and all of the lines that converged to a point become parallel lines.

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

“What we do on this show all the time is we look for ellipses in the mythology and then those become great opportunities to hopefully fill in the blanks,” McKay says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024

The torqued ellipses, quite literally, shifted the axis of Serra’s career: from solid to space, from process to perception, from the artist’s actions to the viewer’s bodily experience.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his large-scale steel structures, such as monumental arcs, spirals and ellipses.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

In the simulations the researchers observed ellipses, triangles and squares.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

Eventually the detailed observations of the apparent motion of the planets forced him to abandon the idea of circular paths and to realize that planets travel in ellipses.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan