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 closer you look, the more details there are, just like examining Earth’s orbit and seeing it’s not a circle but an ellipse.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023
The new decorative bulbs come in three shapes: triangle, ellipse, and globe.
From The Verge ● Aug. 26, 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
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
“Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after ‘knew.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
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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