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
Hooke pointed out the error and suggested that the correct orbit followed by the falling object, assuming it could pass through the solid Earth without resistance, would be a kind of shrinking ellipse.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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
“What we do on this show all the time is we look for ellipses in the mythology and then those become great opportunities to hopefully fill in the blanks,” McKay says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
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
Take a cone and cut it up; you get circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas, depending on how you slice it.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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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