ellipse

How To Use ellipse In A Sentence

• They were constructed carefully, sometimes as exact circles, sometimes as partial ellipses.
• (To illustrate, if the apsidal angle is 180 degrees, as in a Keplerian ellipse, then the exponent in the force law is -2, and if the apsidal angle is 90 degrees, as in an ellipse for which the force center is in the center, the exponent is +1.) Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• An oblate spheroid is a surface of revolution obtained by rotating an ellipse about its minor axis
• The image of sphericity which does not located the principal optic axis is an ellipse based on pinhole model, and the image center offsets from the projection of the sphere center.
• It is made of fine twine (one-inch mesh), preferably from the bark of one of the fig-trees or the brown kurrajong, tightly stretched on two pieces of lawyer-cane each bent to form the half of an irregular ellipse. Tropic Days
• There are marked temporal interruptions and ellipses between the episodes; there are edits but they are kept to a minimum.
• The knifed-on ellipses stand out in slight relief against multicolored grounds of poured and squeegeed paint that sometimes imitate woodgrain or moire patterns.
• Here we examine this in detail, first looking at the case of a circular toroid deformed into an ellipse.
• Second, this version of the story corrects some errors in earlier versions, though it remains full of unanswered questions and strange ellipses.
• The first of his laws of planetary motion asserts that planets orbit the Sun in ellipses.