"Elliptical" is a word in ENGLISH

A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.

That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general …

Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in …

The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.

Omission. See Ellipsis.

The elliptical orbit of a planet.

An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or …

of Ellipsis

An ellipse.

An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).

In the form of an ellipse.

Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to …

A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the …

An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see …

A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the …

The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure.

To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, …