Ellipse
noun
A shape that looks like a round circle but is long in one direction.
The shape of the orbit of a planet around the sun is an ellipse.
Often appears as...
- draw an ellipse
- planet's ellipse
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Technical
noun
In literary, the omission of one or more words that are understood in the context.
"I went to the grocery store, and my friend, to the park." The verb 'went' is understood to apply to 'my friend,' so it is not repeated.
Often appears as...
- use of ellipse
- ellipse in sentence
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Academic
noun
A shape that looks like a round circle but is long in one direction.
The shape of the orbit of a planet around the sun is an ellipse.
Often appears as...
- draw an ellipse
- planet's ellipse
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In literary, the omission of one or more words that are understood in the context.
"I went to the grocery store, and my friend, to the park." The verb 'went' is understood to apply to 'my friend,' so it is not repeated.
Often appears as...
- use of ellipse
- ellipse in sentence
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Planetary Paths
The word 'ellipse' describes the elongated path planets take around the sun, different from a perfect circle.
In astronomy class, we learned that Earth's orbit is an ellipse.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Circle
An 'ellipse' is often confused with a circle, remember it's stretched in one direction like an oval.
She drew an ellipse with two focal points instead of a perfect circle.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Cues
In diagrams or art, an 'ellipse' can represent perspective, showing depth or three-dimensionality.
The artist used an ellipse to give the illusion of a round plate on the table.
Pro Tip 1/3Planetary Paths
The word 'ellipse' describes the elongated path planets take around the sun, different from a perfect circle.
In astronomy class, we learned that Earth's orbit is an ellipse.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Circle
An 'ellipse' is often confused with a circle, remember it's stretched in one direction like an oval.
She drew an ellipse with two focal points instead of a perfect circle.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Cues
In diagrams or art, an 'ellipse' can represent perspective, showing depth or three-dimensionality.
The artist used an ellipse to give the illusion of a round plate on the table.
Pro Tip 1/3Planetary Paths
The word 'ellipse' describes the elongated path planets take around the sun, different from a perfect circle.
In astronomy class, we learned that Earth's orbit is an ellipse.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a Circle
An 'ellipse' is often confused with a circle, remember it's stretched in one direction like an oval.
She drew an ellipse with two focal points instead of a perfect circle.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Cues
In diagrams or art, an 'ellipse' can represent perspective, showing depth or three-dimensionality.
The artist used an ellipse to give the illusion of a round plate on the table.
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A light switch for...
commercialized by a startup company your stereo science which is funded by the NIH and what you see here is a mouse trying to solve a maze as the six arm maze and as a bit of water in the maze to motivate the mouse to move where he'll just sit there and the goal of course of this maze is to get out of the water and go to a little platform that's under the ellipse top port now mice are
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Why is ketchup so hard...
The particles bump into each other, but can't get out of each other's way, so the ketchup doesn't flow. Now, let's say you apply a strong force very quickly. That extra force is enough to squish the tomato particles, so maybe instead of little spheres, they get smushed into little ellipses, and boom! Now you have enough space for one group of particles
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Daniel Wolpert: The real...
they may distribute it in that green area, which is the prior distribution, making it hard for you to return. Now both these sources of information carry important information. And what Bayes' rule says is that I should multiply the numbers on the red by the numbers on the green to get the numbers of the yellow, which have the ellipses,
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Mars Up Close, Part 2:...
And those are the tracks of the rover. When we landed, because we had mapped the surface of our landing ellipse before we got down to the surface of the planet we knew that there were some different terrains that we were likely to sample, depending on where we landed. And because we landed at that spot there,
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Reasons for the seasons...
of how elongated our orbit is. In fact, Earth's orbit is very nearly a perfect circle. However, because Earth's orbit is technically an ellipse, even though it doesn't look like one, and the sun isn't quite exactly at the center, it means that our distance from the sun does change through the year. Ah-ha!
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Making sense of...
shifted away so the blue ellipse and that's the wrong answer and we're not doing correct cosmology I'm really interested in not only being precise but getting the right answer in the universe because I want to understand how the universe works we live at an incredible
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The Sun’s surprising...
throughout the year. But why is it a figure eight and not just a straight line? This is due to another feature of the Earth's revolution, its orbital eccentricity. The Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse, with its distance to the Sun changing at various points.
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The Future of Flying...
mathematical descriptions of the shape they need to execute. And these shapes can be varying as a function of time, and you'll see these robots start from a circular formation, change into a rectangular formation, stretch into a straight line, back into an ellipse.
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What's the difference...
Computer simulators run thousands of different landing scenarios, mixing and matching values for all of the variables. Weighing all the possibilities, the computer spits out the potential area of impact in the form of a landing ellipse.
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Are athletes really...
with arms that are seven feet long. Not only are NBA players ridiculously tall, they are ludicrously long. Had Leonardo wanted to draw the Vitruvian NBA Player, he would have needed a rectangle and an ellipse, not a circle and a square.
Video examples
A light switch for...
commercialized by a startup company your stereo science which is funded by the NIH and what you see here is a mouse trying to solve a maze as the six arm maze and as a bit of water in the maze to motivate the mouse to move where he'll just sit there and the goal of course of this maze is to get out of the water and go to a little platform that's under the ellipse top port now mice are
Video examples
Why is ketchup so hard...
The particles bump into each other, but can't get out of each other's way, so the ketchup doesn't flow. Now, let's say you apply a strong force very quickly. That extra force is enough to squish the tomato particles, so maybe instead of little spheres, they get smushed into little ellipses, and boom! Now you have enough space for one group of particles
Video examples
Daniel Wolpert: The real...
they may distribute it in that green area, which is the prior distribution, making it hard for you to return. Now both these sources of information carry important information. And what Bayes' rule says is that I should multiply the numbers on the red by the numbers on the green to get the numbers of the yellow, which have the ellipses,
Video examples
Mars Up Close, Part 2:...
And those are the tracks of the rover. When we landed, because we had mapped the surface of our landing ellipse before we got down to the surface of the planet we knew that there were some different terrains that we were likely to sample, depending on where we landed. And because we landed at that spot there,
Video examples
Reasons for the seasons...
of how elongated our orbit is. In fact, Earth's orbit is very nearly a perfect circle. However, because Earth's orbit is technically an ellipse, even though it doesn't look like one, and the sun isn't quite exactly at the center, it means that our distance from the sun does change through the year. Ah-ha!
Video examples
Making sense of...
shifted away so the blue ellipse and that's the wrong answer and we're not doing correct cosmology I'm really interested in not only being precise but getting the right answer in the universe because I want to understand how the universe works we live at an incredible
Video examples
The Sun’s surprising...
throughout the year. But why is it a figure eight and not just a straight line? This is due to another feature of the Earth's revolution, its orbital eccentricity. The Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse, with its distance to the Sun changing at various points.
Video examples
The Future of Flying...
mathematical descriptions of the shape they need to execute. And these shapes can be varying as a function of time, and you'll see these robots start from a circular formation, change into a rectangular formation, stretch into a straight line, back into an ellipse.
Video examples
What's the difference...
Computer simulators run thousands of different landing scenarios, mixing and matching values for all of the variables. Weighing all the possibilities, the computer spits out the potential area of impact in the form of a landing ellipse.
Video examples
Are athletes really...
with arms that are seven feet long. Not only are NBA players ridiculously tall, they are ludicrously long. Had Leonardo wanted to draw the Vitruvian NBA Player, he would have needed a rectangle and an ellipse, not a circle and a square.
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Dominic Cummings
British Public Servant
The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius and Archimedes on ellipses would be used centuries later by Kepler for his theory of planetary motion.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Bill F. Walsh
American Editor
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
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Johannes Kepler
German Scientist
Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
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Dominic Cummings
British Public Servant
The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius and Archimedes on ellipses would be used centuries later by Kepler for his theory of planetary motion.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Bill F. Walsh
American Editor
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
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Johannes Kepler
German Scientist
Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
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