elliptical

The Moon's orbit around Earth is elliptical which means there are times when it is further away - apogee - and times when it is closer - perigee.

She was—let’s just say it like it is—able to avoid looping, elliptical digressions, speak in short and complete sentences, and avoid major gaffes like misnaming and mistitling her running mate.

The camera tips skyward in several early moments of RaMell Ross’ exquisite, elliptical “Nickel Boys.”

The Crew Dragon capsule will be launched into a highly elliptical, or oval-shaped, orbit that at 870 miles above Earth will take it through portions of the Van Allen radiation belts, zones of highly charged solar particles with varying radiation levels.

Some of these mergers can become massive elliptical galaxies that contain black holes that are many billions of times the mass of our Sun.