ellipse
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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 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 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
The new decorative bulbs come in three shapes: triangle, ellipse, and globe.
From The Verge • Aug. 26, 2022
In such an orbit the Sun is not at the center but is offset, at the focus of the ellipse.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing ellipse
Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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A Brief History of Time
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