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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A circle is multi-fold, whereas an ellipse has two-fold symmetry.
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A circle will knit as a circle not an ellipse , a square, a square not a rectangle and so one.
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Folding of square, pentagon, ellipse , spider and tetrahedron.
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Indeed, model-interpretive anaphors, unlike ellipses, do not require linguistic antecedents at all.
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The circle is a special case of the ellipse in which the two axes are equal in length.
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The drawing elements of the program are vector-based, and concentrate on shapes, including boxes, polygons and ellipses.
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Whereas in an ellipse m + n constant, in a hyperbola m - n constant.