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
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
Kepler’s first law of planetary motion is simply this: A planet moves in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Her sentences end not in periods but in ellipses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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
He talks in ellipses and apologises several times for rambling - but there's an obvious affection for Pavement and its fans.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2022
Johannes Kepler, the man who discovered that planets travel in ellipses, took this idea—the infinitely distant point—one step further.
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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