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 capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 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
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
“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
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
He showed that comets, like planets, move in ellipses: “Comets are a sort of planets revolved in very eccentric orbits about the Sun.”
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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