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

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 closer you look, the more details there are, just like examining Earth’s orbit and seeing it’s not a circle but an ellipse.

From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023

The new decorative bulbs come in three shapes: triangle, ellipse, and globe.

From The Verge • Aug. 26, 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