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Word: Ellipse
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 17th century: via French from Latin ellipsis (see ellipsis)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ɪˈlɪps
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base.
Short Definition:regular oval shape
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