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 moon doesn’t orbit Earth in a circle, however, but in an ellipse.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 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
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
Hide location: To temporarily shield your location without notifying them, go to Find My > People, select a contact, tap the ellipses and choose Hide Location.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Her sentences end not in periods but in ellipses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
These tiny ellipses, and Ben’s gentle solicitousness, are far more resonant than the thriller-style trickiness — including an actual explosion — that surrounds them.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
In the simulations the researchers observed ellipses, triangles and squares.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023
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
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Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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