Definitions for ellipse

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ellipse el·lipse

Spelling: [ih-lips]

IPA: /ɪˈlɪps/

Ellipse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in ellipse (eeillps).

Definitions for ellipse

noun

1. a plane curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed points, the foci, are equal. It is a conic section formed by the intersection of a right circular cone by a plane that cuts the axis and the surface of the cone. Typical equation: (x 2 / a 2) + (y 2 / b 2) = 1. If a = b the ellipse is a circle.

Origin of ellipse

1745-55; French Latin ellīpsis ellipsis; or by back formation from the plural ellipses

Examples for ellipse

On Dec. 18, a triumphant Johnson appeared on the ellipse outside the White House to light the national Christmas tree.

It is not allowed to move exactly in an ellipse, nor is the earth exactly in the focus.

A hole, though shaped like an ellipse, in which this well-hung stud had placed it would look as if a compass traced it.

These marks will then represent the diameter of the ellipse across its major axis.

Is the orbit that of an ellipse, or a circle, or a parabola?

Man forms the idea of an ellipse, and ascertains the laws of ellipses.

These points are your centers for scribing the long sides of the ellipse.

The other two being intersected at an angle, will each be an ellipse.

The earth's orbit is an ellipse, one of the foci of which is occupied by the sun.

Now it is remarkable that this apparent path is still an ellipse.