ellipse
el·lipse
noun
1.
a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
Origin
From French ellipse. Learned borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis). Doublet of ellipsis.
Phrases
- Cassini ellipse
- circle-ellipse problem
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