ellipse

“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

It’s almost a circle, with a small but significant deviation from Euclidean perfection that actually makes Earth’s orbit a slightly squashed oval—that is, an ellipse.

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

Her sentences end not in periods but in ellipses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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

In the simulations the researchers observed ellipses, triangles and squares.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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