ELLIPSE


Meaning of ELLIPSE in English

[el.lipse] n [Gk elleipsis] (ca. 1753) 1 a: oval b: a closed plane curve generated by a point moving in such a way that the sums of its distances from two fixed points is a constant: a plane section of a right circular cone that is a closed curve

2: ellipsis

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