ellipse

“The central space is simply a regular ellipse, and the walls that surround it are vertical,” he would later recall.

The moon doesn’t orbit Earth in a circle, however, but in an ellipse.

The capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.

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.

On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump was still president, and he urged his supporters at his rally on the ellipse to march to the Capitol and stop Congress’ ratification of Joe Biden’s victory.