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 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

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

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

Kepler had found that Mars moves about the Sun not in a circle, but in an ellipse.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Hide location: To temporarily shield your location without notifying them, go to Find My > People, select a contact, tap the ellipses and choose Hide Location.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

“Masterpiece” then pans very slowly — with lots of emphatic italics, arch ellipses and a few footnotes — over the full arc of the fake movie’s development.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2023

“Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after ‘knew.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

I lost myself in the rhythm of the strokes, my arms tracing long ellipses in the air as if pulling something toward me that refused to come.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs