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 moon doesn’t orbit Earth in a circle, however, but in an ellipse.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 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

Ellipses have two centers, or foci; the more elongated the ellipse, the farther apart these foci are.

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

Not to give anything away, but anyone who’s survived their youth will understand that the title is ironic — or, with Blume’s ellipses, reattached for the title of the final episode, at least inconclusive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

Once you have the app, open the desktop version of Twitter and click on the icon showing ellipses in a circle.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

The opening draws you right in with its destabilizing jump cuts, controlled freneticism, narrative ellipses and oddball swerves — cut to a fog-wreathed discussion about insomnia — which creates an inviting ambiguity.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

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