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
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
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
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
All of a sudden, the ellipse opens up and becomes a parabola.
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
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
Eventually the detailed observations of the apparent motion of the planets forced him to abandon the idea of circular paths and to realize that planets travel in ellipses.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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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