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An elliptical galaxy.
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An elliptical trainer.
adjective
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In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval.
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Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
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(of speech) Concise, condensed.
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Elliptic.
Examples of elliptical in a Sentence
A ring tube of elliptical section is thus formed.
These most commonly resemble segments of circles, but are not infrequently elliptical or irregular in outline.
Petrus Apianus (1524) gave his map an elliptical shape.
The orbit of the moon around the earth, though not a fixed curve of any class, is elliptical in form, and may be represented by an ellipse which is constantly changing its form and position, and has the earth in one of its foci.
The circular outline had given way in geographical opinion to the elliptical with the long axis lying east and west, and Aristotle was inclined to view it as a very long and relatively narrow band almost encircling the globe in the temperate zone.
It is sparing in the use of personal pronouns, and prefers impersonal and elliptical diction.
Then again, the ears are large in proportion to the head, the pupil of the eye is elliptical and vertical when in a strong light, and the female has six pairs of teats, in place of the three to five pairs found in dogs, wolves and jackals.
The principal vibration, in which the section becomes elliptical, corresponds to n = 2.
The principles of construction, the use of stone and cement are the same as in the "elliptical" kraal; there is no definite plan, the shape and arrangement of the enclosures being determined solely by the natural features of the ground.
The aureola, when enveloping the whole body, is generally oval or elliptical in form, but is occasionally circular or quatrefoil.
It is roughly elliptical, its major axis, 180 m.
The axes will take up any position, and consequently give rise to a continuous series of parhelia which touch externally the inner halo, both above and below, and under certain conditions (such as the requisite altitude of the sun) form two closed elliptical curves; generally, however, only the upper and lower portions are seen.
The top boom of each girder is an elliptical wrought iron tube 17 ft.
The island is irregularly elliptical - somewhat triangular - in shape, and is 36 m.
Further a stream of light of the most general character is equivalent to the admixture of common and polarized light, the polarization being elliptical, circular or plane.
There are three distinct though connected groups of ruins at Zimbabwe, which are commonly known as the "Elliptical Temple," the "Acropolis" and the "Valley Ruins."
By its aid, for example, the whole of the properties a elliptical arches, whether square or skew, whether level or sloping in their span, are at once deduced by projection from those of symmetrical circular arches, and the properties of ellipsoidal and ellipticconoidal domes from those of hemispherical and circular-conoidal domes; and the figures of arches fitted to resist the thrust of earth, which is less horizontally than vertically in a certain given ratio, can be deduced by a projection from those of arches fitted to resist the thrust of a liquid, which is of equal intensity, horizontally and vertically.
In the first quarter of the 18th century the bowl becomes narrow and elliptical, with a tongue or "rat's tail" down the back, and the handle is turned up at the end.
This shows that the side of the moon presented to us is held in position as it were by the earth, from which it also follows that the lunar globe is more or less elliptical, the longer axis being directed toward the earth.
In the American button-bush the heads are globular, in some species of teazel elliptical, while in scabious and in composite plants, as sunflower, dandelion, thistle, centaury and marigold, they are somewhat hemispherical, with a flattened, slightly hollowed, or convex disk.
The lower two frames show eccentricity, or how elliptical their orbits are.
This causes the circular orbit of the water to become elliptical.
The most famous is the first, which is doubly misnamed, since it is not a temple and its contour is too unsymmetrical to be described properly as elliptical.
Tisserand in 1895.1 It involved the action of no third mass, but depended solely upon the progression of the line of apsides in a moderately elliptical orbit due to the spheroidal shape of the globes traversing it.
We have seen that under the law of the inverse square all finit orbits are elliptical.
Sepals are generally of a more or less oval, elliptical or oblong form, with their apices either blunt or acute.
They are generally of a more or less oval or elliptical form, or they may be globular, as in Mercurialis annua; at other times linear or clavate, curved, flexuose, or sinuose, as in bryony and gourd.
The Basin is elliptical in form, extending nearly across the state from N.E.
These early hunting sticks differ from returning boomerangs in being larger and having only a shallow angle giving a long low elliptical trajectory.
Each detector had a co-aligned stainless steel collimator yielding an elliptical field of view 1 x 1.8 degrees.
The works involved excavations in Leicester Road to lay a large 1000 mm x 650 mm elliptical culvert to replace the existing defective culvert.
The area is dominated by rounded drumlins, with the characteristic smooth, elliptical form.
The better known Bourdon gage works by allowing the pressure into a curved tube, itself of a slightly elliptical cross section.
Four roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through window of photo lab.
These are on very elliptical orbits, and almost all approach within 38 AU of the Sun.
Interactions with Neptune and Uranus have made their orbits so elliptical.
This means that a perfect circle would appear elliptical on the screen.
A type of halftone screen dot with an elliptical rather than circular shape, which sometimes produces better tonal gradations Email Electronic Mail.
The company built a grandstand to seat 700, along with aa elliptical cycling track.
At the center of this disk I saw an elliptical bulge raised above the other hieroglyphs.
A safety cable inside the elliptical hose prevents hyperextension of the corrugated hose.
These density waves are twisted by the elliptical orbits into spiral arms.
Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy and paths.
The mass has an elliptical shape, its long axis, which extends nearly N.N.W.-S.S.E., being about 120 m.
In the simplest cases the cambium produces xylem more freely along certain tracts of the circumference than along others, so that the stem loses its original cylindrical form and becomes elliptical or lobed in section.
It is colourless and contains definite corpuscles, which are round or elliptical, and in many Metanemertines are coloured red by haemoglobin, being colourless in other species.
To the south-east, in the district known as the Cunelie, are a large number of tombs, known as sesi, similar in character to the nuraghi of Sardinia, though of smaller size, consisting of round or elliptical towers with sepulchral chambers in them, built of rough blocks of lava.
Could it be Nibiru, a brown dwarf in a retrograde elliptical orbit around the Sun?
Flood waters had scoured out big, elliptical scallops in the rock.
Some of these giant worlds spin around their stars at great speed, often in highly elliptical orbits.