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ELLIPSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
Example:
the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("ellipse" is a kind of...):
conic; conic section ((geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ellipse"):
circle (ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point)
Derivation:
elliptic; elliptical (rounded like an egg)
