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ellipse

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See also:Ellipseandeclipse

English

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ellipse

Wikipedia

Etymology

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FromFrenchellipse.Doublet ofellipsis.

Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪps/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
(US)IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪps/,/əˈlɪps/,/iˈlɪps/
(General Australian)IPA^(key): /əˈlɪps/,/ɪˈlɪps/
Rhymes:-ɪps

Noun

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ellipse (pluralellipses)

(geometry) Aclosed curve, thelocus of apoint such that thesum of thedistances from that point to two other fixed points (called thefoci of the ellipse) isconstant; equivalently, theconic section that is theintersection of acone with aplane that does not intersect thebase of the cone.
(grammar) Theremoval from a phrase of aword which isgrammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.

Synonyms

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oval (in non-technical use)

Derived terms

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Translations

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curve

Arabic:إِهْلِيلَج m(ʔihlīlaj),قَطْعٌ نَاقِص m(qaṭʕun nāqiṣ)
Armenian:էլիպս (hy)(ēlips)
Belarusian:э́ліпс m(élips)
Bengali:উপবৃত্ত (bn)(upobritto)
Bulgarian:елипса (bg) f(elipsa)
Catalan:el·lipse (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin:橢圓 /椭圆 (zh)(tuǒyuán)
Czech:elipsa (cs) f
Danish:ellipse c
Dutch:ellips (nl)
Esperanto:elipso
Estonian:ellips
Faroese:eggklingra f,ellipsa f
Finnish:ellipsi (fi)
French:ellipse (fr) f
Georgian:ელიფსი(elipsi)
German:Ellipse (de) f
Hebrew:אֵלִיפְּסָה (he) f(elípsa)
Hindi:दीर्घवृत्त(dīrghavŕtt)
Hungarian:ellipszis (hu)
Icelandic:sporbaugur (is) m,sporbaugur (is) m
Interlingua:ellipse (ia)
Irish:éilips m
Italian:ellisse (it) f
Japanese:楕円 (ja)(だえん, daen)
Kannada:ದೀರ್ಘವೃತ್ತ (kn)(dīrghavṛtta)
Khmer:អេលីប(ʼeeliip)
Korean:타원 (ko)(tawon)
Latvian:elipse (lv) f
Maori:pororapa
Mongolian:эллипс(ellips),зууван (mn)(zuuvan)
Navajo:heeneezgo názbąs
Norwegian:
Bokmål:ellipse (no) m
Nynorsk:ellipse m
Persian:بیضی (fa)(bizi),خایه‌دیس(xâye-dis)
Polish:elipsa (pl) f
Portuguese:elipse (pt) f
Romanian:elipsă (ro) f
Russian:э́ллипс (ru)(éllips)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:елипса f
Roman:elipsa (sh) f
Shona:denderende
Slovak:elipsa (sk) f
Slovene:elipsa f,pakrog m
Spanish:elipse (es) f
Swedish:ellips (sv) c
Tagalog:tambilugan,duyog
Tamil:நீள்வட்டம் (ta)(nīḷvaṭṭam)
Thai:วงรี (th)(wong-rii)
Turkish:elips (tr)
Ukrainian:е́ліпс m(élips)
Uzbek:ellips (uz)
Vietnamese:elíp

Verb

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ellipse (third-person singular simple presentellipses,present participleellipsing,simple past and past participleellipsed)

(grammar) Toremove from a phrase aword which isgrammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
In B's response to A's question:- (A: Would you like to go out?, B: I'd love to), the words that areellipsed arego out.