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ELLIPTICAL

[ih-lip-ti-kuhl]

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adjective Also, el·lip·tic.

pertaining to or having the form of an ellipse.

pertaining to or marked by grammatical ellipsis.

(of speech or writing) expressed with extreme or excessive economy; relieved of irrelevant matter: to converse in elliptical sentences.

(of a style of speaking or writing) tending to be ambiguous, cryptic, or obscure: an elliptical prose that is difficult to translate.

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noun

Astronomy. elliptical galaxy.

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the polestar or North Star, a star of the second magnitude close to the north pole of the heavens, in the constellation Ursa Minor

any of the nine large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun

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Origin:
1650–60; < Greek elleiptik(ós) defective (see ellipsis, -tic) + -al¹

Related forms

el·lip·ti·cal·ness, noun

non·el·lip·tic, adjective

non·el·lip·ti·cal, adjective

non·el·lip·ti·cal·ly, adverb

o·ver·el·lip·ti·cal, adjective

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o·ver·el·lip·ti·cal·ly, adverb

sub·el·lip·tic, adjective

sub·el·lip·ti·cal, adjective

un·el·lip·ti·cal, adjective

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Example Sentences

Nearby, several exercisers were striding on elliptical.

Unlike spiral and elliptical galaxies, irregular galaxies lack any appearance of organized structure.

It's an elliptical way of thinking, equating cause and effect.

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Nearby, several exercisers were striding on elliptical.

Unlike spiral and elliptical galaxies, irregular galaxies lack any appearance of organized structure.

It's an elliptical way of thinking, equating cause and effect.

Elliptical galaxies may also be small, in which case they are dubbed dwarf elliptical galaxies.

Elliptical orbits do not preclude objects from being planets.

Glossy, oval to elliptical leaves more add to my plant list.

In the upper left of this photograph, faint billowing shapes can be seen in the outer regions of an elliptical galaxy.

Your exercise regimen involves an elliptical trainer.

Perhaps that was meant to be an inspirational tale for the elliptical machines.

Comets are balls of rock and ice that grow tails as they approach the sun in the course of their highly elliptical orbits.

The truth is that the elliptical galaxy in this case is only a temporary structure.

Also, their orbits are elliptical instead of nearly circular.

Then he moved on to an elliptical cross-trainer for cardiovascular exercise.

The battered disk puffed into a swirling, sparkly ball of gas and stars-an elliptical galaxy.

Lots of planet orbits are highly elliptical and tilted.

Because of the two planets' elliptical orbits, these close approaches vary in their distance each time.

Treadmills are still the leader in aerobic exercise equipment, but elliptical trainers are gaining ground, the magazine reports.

The fact that its orbit is elliptical is seen in the fact that the sun wobbles slightly.

Sixty percent of current satellites, including those in elliptical and other orbits not listed here, are used for communications.

It's hard to have a conversation when you are on the elliptical.

And metastable isomers differ from normal atoms in having a nucleus which is football shaped or elliptical rather than round.

He could use an elliptical cross-trainer when he got a little better.

The structure is formed by a series of elliptical steel open web trusses, which affords a great deal of design flexibility.

Auster's brief and elliptical meditations on loss would surely lead to yet one more.

Markson's wry, elliptical novels were almost always surprisingly engaging and underappreciated.

The only thing that worked for me long term was exercise on an elliptical trainer.

Densely foliaged plants with elliptical to oval leaves and bright-colored new growth that matures to dark.

Galaxies that are not spiral or elliptical are called irregular galaxies.

The building, a mammoth sunlit elliptical dome fashioned.

Yet there is also some elliptical motion to this general trend.

Lower velocities result in elliptical orbits that do not escape.

These quasars are often in elliptical galaxies, not always in spiral.

It is a book that improves on second reading because it is so willfully elliptical at first.

Indeed, the new film sustains its brilliantly elliptical tone from beginning to end.

Cats also have elliptical pupils that open and close faster and can become larger than our round ones.

The engine has two moving parts, a triangular rotor and a single elliptical chamber.

The elliptical editing, plentiful medium-distance compositions and haunted-house sound effects.

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elliptical (ɪˈlɪptɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	relating to or having the shape of an ellipse
2.	relating to or resulting from ellipsis
3.	of speech, literary style, etc
	a. very condensed or concise, often so as to be obscure or ambiguous
	b. circumlocutory or long-winded

usage The use of elliptical to mean circumlocutory should be avoided as it may be interpreted wrongly as meaning condensed or concise

el'liptically

—*adv*

el'lipticalness

—n

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elliptical

1650s, elliptic in shape, from elliptic. Grammatical sense of missing essential words or phrases is recorded from 1778 (see ellipsis).

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"Getting up some time after midnight to collect the scattered brands together, while my companions were sound asleep, I observed, partly in the fire, which had ceased to blaze, a perfectly regular elliptical ring of light, about five inches in its shortest diameter, six or seven in its longer, and from one eighth to one quarter of an inch wide. It was fully as bright as the fire, but not reddish or scarlet, like a coal, but a white and slumbering light, like the glow-worm's. I could tell it from the fire only by its whiteness. I saw at once that it must be phosphorescent wood, which I had so often heard of, but never chanced to see. Putting my finger on it, with a little hesitation, I found that it was a piece of dead moose-wood (Acer striatum).... Using my knife, I discovered that the light proceeded from that portion of the sap-wood immediately under the bark, and thus presented a regular ring at the end, which, indeed, appeared raised above the level of the wood, and when I pared off the bark and cut into the sap, it was all aglow along the log."

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