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Home Dictionary Name: ellipseEllipse
An oval or oblong figure bounded by a regular curve which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis and the least diameter is the minor axis See Conic section under Conic and cf Focus...
Elliptic
Of or pertaining to an ellipse having the form of an ellipse oblong with rounded ends...
Ellipsograph
An instrument for describing ellipses called also trammel...
Ellipsoid
A solid all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles See Conoid n 2 a...
Elliptically
In the form of an ellipse...
Ellipticity
Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere especially in reference to the figure of the earth the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters divided by the equatorial thus the ellipticity of the earth is 129966...
Indicatrix
A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic...
VerbarOblatum
An oblate spheroid a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis Cf Oblongum...
VerbarOblongum
A prolate spheroid a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis Cf Oblatum and see Ellipsoid of revolution under Ellipsoid...
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