ellipse
Example Sentences
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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
The moon doesn’t orbit Earth in a circle, however, but in an ellipse.
From Scientific American
The capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.
From Scientific American
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
The Lightguide bulbs come in three shapes — large globe, ellipse, and triangular — and are about 8 inches tall.
From The Verge
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
