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

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

It’s almost a circle, with a small but significant deviation from Euclidean perfection that actually makes Earth’s orbit a slightly squashed oval—that is, an ellipse.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023

The Lightguide bulbs come in three shapes — large globe, ellipse, and triangular — and are about 8 inches tall.

From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 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

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

The torqued ellipses, quite literally, shifted the axis of Serra’s career: from solid to space, from process to perception, from the artist’s actions to the viewer’s bodily experience.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his large-scale steel structures, such as monumental arcs, spirals and ellipses.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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