Ellipse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELLIPSE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a type of plane curve
• 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.
• An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.
• Omission. See Ellipsis.
• The elliptical orbit of a planet.
• a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
• oval shape

Words related to ELLIPSE

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Words that contain ELLIPSE

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How to use ELLIPSE in a sentence

• A low, high-power car, shaped like an ellipse, cut through the snarl of traffic, bleating.
• Thus the path of a planet is seen by reason to be an ellipse.
• But it was a graft on the old Roman arch, in the curve of the ellipse rather than the circle.
• This inference is so far correct, but the very common impression that the middle point of the rod always describes an ellipse is quite erroneous.
• It immediately assumes the form of an ellipse or oval, and darts off with great speed, revolving on its major axis as it does so.
• The motion of the earth around the sun is mainly effected in an ellipse, the form of which is liable to vary from the effects of planetary perturbation.
• It must therefore be describing a very elongated ellipse, which might possibly extend even to the neutral point where the lunar and terrestrial attractions were mutually overcome.
• Every moving body circulating regularly around another, describes an ellipse.
• A small disturbance imparted to the satellite will only change the ellipse to a small amount, and so the motion is said to be stable.
• At the fourth corner is the entrance into the garden, which is in shape an ellipse, the longer diameter being about 25 feet.
• The earth, far below and dimly visible, was sliding slowly northward, and the dust ring which marked their starting-point now lay as a flattened ellipse on the distant horizon.
• If two bodies alone were concerned, say the sun and a planet, the orbit of the lesser around the greater would be an ellipse, which would never change its form, size, or position.
• The earth does not describe a circle around the sun, but an ellipse, as it must by the laws of rational mechanics.
• Suppress this ellipse, and the gesture must also be suppressed, for gesture is not the accompaniment of speech.
• He then had the fortunate idea of trying an ellipse with the same axis as his tentative oval.
• Having now fitted the ends of both major and minor axes of the ellipse, he leaped to the conclusion that the orbit would fit everywhere.
• The ellipse took my fancy because of its colloquial stamp.
• These terminal stations are arranged in the form of an irregular ellipse and are eleven in number.
• The speed with which it traverses the ellipse of its orbit is variable.
• ECCENTRICITY OF AN ELLIPSE, the distance of either focus from centre divided by half the major axis.

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