How To Use Elliptic In A Sentence

  • When the eyelids are open, an elliptical space, the palpebral fissure (rima palpebrarum), is left between their margins, the angles of which correspond to the junctions of the upper and lower eyelids, and are called the palpebral commissures or canthi. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye
  • Whereas hyperbolic activity and elliptic motion characterizes the cab, a big rig manifests an elliptic activity and hyperbolic motion.
  • He never uses allusions, elliptical expressions, never pretends to know what he doesn't.
  • The width of a molecule at a given point along the contour length is the diameter of the horizontal axis of the elliptical cross section at that point.
  • Except that Bainbridge was never quite that neat a writer; elliptical, mysterious and not too hung up on the indispensability of closure, her novels quite frequently seemed to lack an easily decipherable resolution, and be all the more powerful for it. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review
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  • No one knew exactly what inspired her elliptic comments, and her relations had long since given up trying to interpret them.
  • He guessed that the original cutting stylus was defective and so he tried a custom-made reproducing stylus, instead of the usual conical or elliptical styli.
  • After ascending the elliptical stairs past a couple small galleries, one is immediately struck by the bright orange carpet laid across most of the fourth floor.
  • The Earth's path round the sun is elliptical.
  • Similarly, radial burns can be used to convert circular orbits into elliptical ones.
  • In addition, she changed the exercise equipment in the club bringing in treadmills, recumbent bikes and ellipticals that were more comfortable for the women, most of whom were new to exercising.
  • Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.
  • The rate of the planet's motion, along the elliptical pathway, was constantly non-uniform.
  • ..one quick finger compression is all it takes...like a roll of the loaded dice, it comes up an elliptic "trey" any & every time i need it... This Just In: Plugs and Deliberations
  • It consists of four parts, the elliptical garden incorporating an oval pool, the Yew garden, the upper terrace and a lower terrace and pergola, all four linked by a terrace which once fronted the original house.
  • The first law, sometimes called the law of orbits, states that planets orbit the sun elliptically.
  • The sculpture consists of an elliptical loop of steel, attached to which are spheres and hemispheres fashioned from strips of steel.
  • Treadmills are still the most popular type of equipment sold, but a growing number of elliptical motion trainers are attracting exercisers seeking a low-impact workout.
  • The semielliptical fanlight over the entrance door is framed by a wooden arch neatly carved with flutes and stylized flowers.
  • [GALEODIA HODGII] Shell rather thick; elliptical, obtuse; whirls about five, inflated, and ornamented with numerous fine spiral lines, which are quite prominent at base; these, with the fine lines of growth, give the surface a cancellated appearance; collumellar lip marked with many irregular plicae; aperture nearly twice the length of the spire. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • He noted that if the bob was drawn back and released then it followed an elliptical path, and moreover the major axis rotated in the direction of revolution exactly as did the apsides of the moon's orbit.
  • The leaves are larger and more elliptical than hemp dogbane and all plant parts exude a milky substance when broken.
  • Radial burns can also be used to circularize an elliptical orbit.
  • The researchers used laser pulses to produce a wave packet that contained the outer electron of a lithium atom and traveled around the nucleus on an elongated elliptical orbit.
  • No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's elliptical logic and weird similes.
  • Among the common shapes are triangular, circular, rhomboidal, quadrate, trapezoidal, and elliptical.
  • It was proved by Oppolzer [1286] that if the comet of 1843 had entered our system from stellar space with parabolic velocity it would, by the action of a medium such as Encke postulated (varying in density inversely as the square of the distance from the sun), have been brought down, by its first perihelion passage, to elliptic movement in a period of twenty-four years, with such rapid diminution that its next return would be in about ten. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
  • We fit elliptical isophotes to a diverse sample of Chandra cluster data and summarize other methods for quantifying relaxedness.
  • I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of elliptical clauses, but this example took me (intuitively, not analytically) aback.
  • Five hydrospire pores are also big, elliptical or thickly lentoid.
  • The Elbow actual measurement is more than 8 % of the ellipticity.
  • Once you understand elliptical orbits in the classical model, the relativistic model is really a minor modification of it in the cases we are talking about (with much more complex maths).
  • The theorem holds in spherical and elliptic geometry.
  • The leaves, which are frequently damaged by insects, are alternate, elliptical, 6-20 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, entire, denticulate or sinuate. Chapter 18
  • They have a traditional belief in a heliocentric system and in elliptical orbits of astronomical phenomena.
  • The sun disturbs the elliptical motion of the moon around the earth.
  • The elliptical questions should be generally acceptable, since they don't have soon (with its usual component of afterness) in combination with before.
  • The near elliptic sail cut is now sort of over-elliptic giving us a fuller, more elliptic lift distribution in both loose and tight settings.
  • (Sometimes circularity is called or confused with ellipticity, but I prefer the former.) What is Your Equation?
  • Bernhard Riemann pioneered elliptic geometry
  • Another white plant is = A. volvata = Pk., which has elliptical spores, and is striate on the margin instead of sulcate. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • These problems form the basis of a conjecture: every elliptic curve defined over the rational field is a factor of the Jacobian of a modular function field.
  • Its branches contain alternating, elliptical, bright green leaves, and its flowers, which appear from April to June, are reddish or pink, and bell-shaped.
  • In the London ‘Rubaiyat’, the ornamentation characterised by scroll-like involutions of ‘A Book of Verse’ is largely replaced by overlapping elliptical and oval shapes formed from the intersections of vine branches.
  • This is because the Earth has a slightly elliptical orbit around the Sun. Times, Sunday Times
  • The external agonies, provided by everyone from a label exec (Kim Gordon) to a chatty yellow pages salesman (real life Yellow Pages salesman Thadeus A. Thomas), are largely irrelevant to the elliptical narrative, but they have an aesthetic value that's critical to Van Sant's vision. Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  • For two bodies, the solution is easy: the two bodies move around each other in elliptical orbits - or follow parabolic or hyperbolic paths in some special cases.
  • Now, the person doing the explaining is also mighty elliptical about the whole thing: heaven forefend that someone should come right out and say: Look, you can't do that because these bad things will happen. George MacDonald Completely Loses Me
  • The operation consume most time is multiplication of a point on the elliptic curve with an integer in the system, which was called multiple point operation.
  • Leaves elliptic or egg-shaped, wider towards tips, margins serrated. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the elliptical arch be equally strong with the semicircular; that is, if an arch, by approaching to a straight line, loses none of its stability, it will follow, that all arcuation is useless, and that the bridge may at last, without any inconvenience, consist of stone laid in straight lines from pillar to pillar. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
  • He worked on geodesy but became interested in conformal map projections where he invented a quincuncial map projection using elliptic functions.
  • Whereas the synodic period is 29.53 days, it takes 27.5 days for the moon to move in its elliptical orbit from perigee to perigee.
  • He had achieved this by the time he was eighteen but at this stage he did not know even that the moon and planets described elliptical orbits.
  • Quite a few species once thought to be extinct have been rediscovered in recent times, including the local ebony (Trochetiopsis ebenus), St. Helena olive (Nesiota elliptica), false gumwood (Commidendrum spurium) and bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium). St. Helena scrub and woodlands
  • An elliptical trainer combines the movements of the stair climber, treadmill and exercise bike into one. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lowest point of each elliptically shaped orbit curved below the planet's ionosphere, allowing the magnetometer to obtain better-than-planned regional measurements of Mars.
  • Yet these observations provide the barest amount of information: just the size and ellipticity of the planet's orbit and a lower limit on its mass.
  • The writing may be a bit elliptical, but it's fun, which most food columns tend not to be.
  • The most distinctive taxon, represented by a pluricolumnal and the articular face of an isolated columnal, has low elliptical ossicles, with long fine crenulae and an apparently excentric minute lumen.
  • Earlier approaches started with an elliptic orbit of the Moon round the Earth, assuming the Sun had no effect, then perturbing the orbit to take account of the gravitation of the Sun.
  • Many derivatives of ellipticine have been synthesized in an attempt to improve the antitumour properties of this plant alkaloid.
  • It never strives to say anything in particular, and the backroom drama-what there is of it anyway-is so brief, oblique and elliptical that it merely provides an air of impromptu, on-the-fly context for the dance numbers.
  • IBE uses bilinear mapping on elliptic curves to obtain an algorithm that can be used to turn a simple, well recognized identity or role into a public/private key pair.
  • Newton favoured comets having parabolic orbits, but Halley believed that elliptical orbits might exist.
  • Thus the known points of the Martian orbit were colligated by Kepler using the conception of an elliptical curve. William Whewell
  • When little observations popped out, they had elliptical power.
  • At 11,000 feet, no firs: nothing almost but Rhododendrons, R. ellipticum, and R. ellipticum foliis basi cordatis. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • I gather from the elliptical description that follows that he began to patronize the coffee shop a lot more frequently.
  • A striking feature of this architectural style is the elliptical windows.
  • _ Elliptical incision for entropium; _b. _ wedge-shaped incision for ectropium. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • The younger bacteroid was elliptic and had a similar nucleus region in cell. The normal bacteroid had an intact membrane envelope and PHB granules.
  • Similarly, Kepler's discovery of the elliptical orbit of the planets did not sit well with the religious establishment.
  • In addition, the effects of wavelength, ellipticity and relative refractive index difference on the transmission constant are briefly analyzed.
  • By Abigail, November 29, 2009 @ 10:01 pm kind of an elliptical circular rhombus, really. Cheeseburger Gothic » So, care to join me in the country’s most exclusive club.
  • But among the remaining parts of Pure Mathematics we have the theory of Elliptic Functions and of the Jacobian and Abelian Functions, and the theory of Differential Equations, including of course Partial Differential Equations. Autobiography
  • He worked on the general theory of boundary value problems for linear systems of partial differential equations of elliptic type, finding general methods of solving boundary value problems.
  • Lechea minor can be easily distinguished from that species by its stems more than 5 cm tall, ovate to elliptic leaves and ovoid capsules.
  • They also know that orbits of planets are elliptical and not circular, which of course is another advanced bit of information.
  • Poetic, elliptical pic unfolds in short, sensuous stream-of-consciousness-like scenes that evoke an interior world of emotion and sensation. GreenCine Daily
  • The effect was caused by it sweeping along the lowest point of elliptical orbit around the Earth as it was in its full phase. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the eyelids are open, an elliptical space, the palpebral fissure (rima palpebrarum), is left between their margins, the angles of which correspond to the junctions of the upper and lower eyelids, and are called the palpebral commissures or canthi. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye
  • He thus enriched analysis and gave the complete solution of the two great questions of the transformation of hyperelliptic functions and of their complex multiplication.
  • You see its blue elliptical logo emblazoned on Olympic scoreboards.
  • In mechanical terms, the head is an elliptical spheroid with a single universal joint, the neck.
  • In the next two chapters it will reveal to us how to scale the hodographs for elliptical orbits.
  • So many took part in these singular experiments, which assumed rather the appearance of outdoor sports than of scientific demonstrations, that in a short time we had provided the asteroid with a very large number of little moons, or satellites, of gold, which revolved around it in orbits of various degrees of ellipticity, taking, on the average, about three-quarters of an hour to complete a circuit. Edison's Conquest of Mars
  • You've probably seen this elliptical exercise equipment being pimped on infomercials.
  • Particularly did it differ from the Roman vault in that, while the latter had a level crown, obtained by using semicircular lateral and transverse arches and elliptical groin arches (naturally formed by the intersection of two semicircular barrel vaults of equal radius), the "Lombard" vault was constructed with semicircular diagonals, the result being that domical form which was always retained by the Gothic builders of France because of its intrinsic beauty. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • During a sabbatical term at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifique in Paris in 1985 she studied Gromov's work on elliptic methods which became the basis for much of her later work.
  • Genetic defects of the red cell membrane may cause the red cells to assume a spherical rather than a biconcave shape, or alter their configuration to an elliptical form.
  • Small ovoid and elliptical silver baskets were made in the neoclassical style to hold sugar as part of the tea service.
  • The Milky Way has about 100 globular clusters, whereas giant elliptical galaxies are surrounded by thousands of globulars.
  • An elliptical forecourt, lined to left and right with gabions, is scarcely preparation for what happens at the top of the generous ramp which leads up through the portico.
  • The focal point of the block will be elliptical stairwells with glass walls to flood classrooms with natural daylight.
  • After all, he has been making a similar kind of moody and elliptical music for years, with precious little acclaim. Times, Sunday Times
  • The novels she wrote (in French) belonged to that period of `new wave" films and elliptical, jagged prose. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • In 1705 Halley showed that the comet, which is now called after him, moved in an elliptical orbit round the sun.
  • Elliptic curves and modular forms are mathematically so different that mathematicians initially couldn't believe that the two are related.
  • Perennial scapose herbs with simple stems from short, stocky, horizontal rhizomes bearing a whorl of 3 net-veined, green or mottled, ovate-obovate or elliptical bracts, petiolate or sessile, flower solitary.
  • But the orbit is elliptical, and when the Moon is near perigee (closest to Earth), it moves along its orbit more swiftly than it does when it is near apogee (farthest from Earth).
  • They had the typical appearance of spherical or elliptical aggregates of altered erythrocytes surrounded by an envelope.
  • Further, Descartes was unable to give, or explain the ellipticity of the orbits of planets, and had to assume that there were elliptic vortices. Aether and Gravitation
  • Trimming extraneous material from the mirror to reduce inertia results in the typical elliptical or polygon-shaped galvo mirror.
  • The lyrics are unostentatious and the imagery is stark - the personal opens up into the universal thanks to Bickford's suggestive, elliptical couplets.
  • Or again, the term unreason is sometimes used rather more reasonably; for a sort of loose or elliptical statement, which is at least illogical in form. Vintage Distributism
  • The performance of the proposed floating immittance is demonstrated on a fifth order elliptic filter.
  • In the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, the composition of the forests transforms and the more abundant species are Brosimum alicastrum, Bumelia persimilis, Godmania aesculifolia, Manilkara zapota, Pterocarpus acapulcensis, Licania arborea, Tabebuia palmeri, Bombax palmeri, Bombax ellipticum and Plumeria rubra. Southern Pacific dry forests
  • In each case, elliptical writing conveys too little.
  • The elephant's road to freedom links up with a city dweller making a hard choice in a treacherous world, and in Sommers's hands, it all makes elliptical sense.
  • There are other kinds of constructions in which the choice of “me” and “I” in short elliptical phrases may depend onwhether a subject or an object is implied. The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » Me too? I too?
  • He therefore accepted Kepler's theory of elliptical orbits for the planets and tested Kepler's laws by direct observation.
  • Period: May 2009* operation: elliptical orbit, 20 km (perilune) at south pole and 100 km (apolune) at north pole* mission: same as phase 2. Spaceports
  • the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints
  • Though rectangular in form, an Ionic colonnade (rather than Corinthian, as in Washington) that contained a gallery for spectators threw the northern end of the room into a semi-elliptical figure.
  • For example, consider a spacecraft flying in an elliptical orbit and burning its engines at the moment it reaches perigee.
  • He liked to speak elliptically, but he made it clear that he had on his staff at least one black-bag man that is, a surreptitious entry specialist although he never admitted having had him employ those talents. Will
  • writer's block round& round this empty block again& again i go double, triple lost each awful keystroke a doppelganger sabotage twice meeting itself this nauseous elliptical process of so little unfolding consequence anticipation wearing too tight shoes cigarettes and coffee smirking in the background hemingway& faulkner offering whiskey still the unsolved crime: Writer’s block
  • The hatching apparatus has circular or elliptic pond with circular path.
  • Curves (such as the trigonometric polynomials of elliptic Fourier analysis) may be fit to such an outline, and then compared through statistical analysis of their parameters.
  • He paid patients the compliment of offering elliptical hints rather than didactic advice. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact the eccentricity of the earth's elliptical orbit has only a minor effect on the seasons. Fire and Ice - the Greenhouse Effect, Ozone Depletion, and Nuclear Winter
  • The leaflets are rather large, 7 x 3.5 to 11 x 5.5 cm and ovate to elliptic in shape, with a pronounced acuminate tip. Chapter 8
  • The _fourth glume_ is elliptic-oblong, plano-convex, subobtuse, smooth or shining, though faintly striate, coriaceous with incurved margins; _palea_ is coriaceous, as long as the glume, elliptic, faintly striate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • He declares that on the same branch of oak he has noted the following variations: (1) In the length of the petiole, as one to three; (2) in the form of the leaf, being either elliptical or obovoid; (3) in the margin being entire, or notched, or even pinnatifid; Darwinism (1889)
  • Many derivatives of ellipticine have been synthesized in an attempt to improve the antitumour properties of this plant alkaloid.
  • Such elliptical answers are of course used by everyone, and they show the appropriate deletion of subject and main verb, leaving the locative which is questioned by wh + there. Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence
  • They are often elliptical in shape, but sometimes possess hexagonal outlines.
  • The front door is surmounted by an elliptical recessed arch in which a glass with five vertical muntins has replaced the original wooden fan.
  • These new Made in Japan irons have a unique elliptical-shaped oversized soleplate which is pointed on both ends. AMEinfo.com Latest News
  • Identify the quadric surface sketched at the right. z (a) Hyperboloid of two sheets (b) Elliptic paraboloid 2 − 4 (c) Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • For this reason, seasoned filmgoers will likely be neither as astonished by its elliptical narrative structure and montage nor as stunned by the beauteous unfolding of sensory and conceptual permutations representing cosmological reality as they might have been three-to-four decades ago. G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man
  • Curves (such as the trigonometric polynomials of elliptic Fourier analysis) may be fit to such an outline, and then compared through statistical analysis of their parameters.
  • The _fourth glume_ is coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the second glume, awned at the apex, paleate, with three stamens and an ovary; the _palea_ is as long as the glume, elliptic oblong, obtuse. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Similarly, radial burns can be used to convert circular orbits into elliptical ones.
  • This is not an easy task because of Knight's elliptical writing style.
  • Leaves are alternate, ovate or ovate-elliptical with a short pedicel and three or four lateral veins.
  • LEAVES: Alternate with short petiole hardly 3 mm long, usually elliptic with a rounded tip, base cuneate or slightly cordate, blade leathery, light green above, silvery grey and softly hairy underneath. Chapter 7
  • During its 14.7-hour orbit of Saturn, Prometheus 102 kilometers, or 63 miles across reaches the point in its elliptical path, called apoapse, where it is farthest away from Saturn and closest to the F ring, and the moon's gravity is just strong enough to draw a "streamer" of material out of the core region of the F ring. Amazing Ring Ripples | Universe Today
  • In Bromfield's 'Flora Vectensis,' p. 35, the following account is given of an abnormal development in _Cardamine pratensis_: "On the lower part of the corymb were several seed vessels on pedicels changed from their usual linear to an ovate elliptical figure, so as to resemble a silicula. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • He appears to be shuffling the decks in an elliptical power move.
  • The extensive array of cardio equipment includes treadmills, total-body elliptical cross-trainers, upright and recumbent Lifecycle exercise bikes and stairclimbers.
  • They have alternate, elliptical, smooth-edged leaves growing on smooth stems bearing two or more flowers.
  • He spoke only briefly and elliptically about the mission.
  • Rather, he was a songwriter of rare poise slumming it in the underground because his elliptical songs were too druggy and bitter to attract the mainstream hosannas they deserved.
  • Whereas hyperbolic activity and elliptic motion characterizes the cab, a big rig manifests an elliptic activity and hyperbolic motion.
  • He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
  • Sections of the flattened wire show a continuous rather than an angular transition from the flats into semi-elliptical edges practically without any stress concentrations.
  • He also started work on elliptic curves and, with Baer, on topological fields.
  • The choice of electricians or estate-agents in the elliptical clause affected the plausibility of its interpretation in the following way.
  • The third topic to which Eisenstein made a major contribution was the theory of elliptic functions.
  • The upper regions of the stem have a characteristic square-shaped cross-section with long internodes separating whorls of elliptical to oblanceolate leaves.
  • Influences of laser ellipticity on the ionization parameters of Ni-like Kr(NLK) system based on electron collisional scheme of optical-field ionization(OFI) were investigated.
  • In aikido, for example, the roll is usually an elliptical fall rather than circular.
  • The stamen primordia differentiate from globular primordia into elliptic appendages of differing size.
  • Beautiful glades here occurred, trees covered with mosses: another fine oak, Q. castaneoides commences, Daphne papyraceae very common, Composita penduliflora, Hemiphragma, Rhododendron elliptica, foliis basi, cordatis subtus punctatis, Ilex! Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • The enthalpy ([Delta] H) and entropy ([Delta] S) of folding for the tropomyosin and troponin T peptides were determined from the change in ellipticity as previously described.
  • He granted that the proposition connected mathematically the inverse square law to the ellipticity of the course of the planets. Explanation in Mathematics
  • The rotated elliptical shell could explain the polarization angle, but failed to match a feature in the supernova's flux that suggested an uneven absorption of light from the photosphere.
  • Its elliptical paraboloid shape was selected because it could be easily described mathematically, simplifying both design and construction.
  • In 1955, he was examining the properties of elliptic curves.
  • the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity
  • He noted that if the bob was drawn back and released then it followed an elliptical path, and moreover the major axis rotated in the direction of revolution exactly as did the apsides of the moon's orbit.
  • The fruit is smooth, compressed, elliptic, somewhat solid and corticate.
  • When the orbit is more elliptical, the perihelion is closer to the Sun and the aphelion is farther away than when the orbit is more circular. Milankovitch cycles
  • At times, elliptical speech or writing is so concise that listeners and readers must supply missing elements through guesswork or special knowledge, and if they cannot, they fail to understand.
  • That is a phrase which, in our respectful submission, is also apt to mislead, it being an elliptical noun phrase.
  • Bush was as elliptical in his victory speech about what lies ahead in Iraq as about the domestic issues he touched on, which included the economy, taxes, Social Security and education.
  • By the end, the dialogue has become elliptical and drowned by distorted sound.
  • The elliptical amphitheatre could have seated between 4,500 and 9,000 spectators.
  • The focusing mirror preferably has an elliptical shape to reduce off-axis aberrations in the focused beam.
  • The signals come from 2 satellites that are picked up by one smaller 33.5 by 26.5 in elliptical dish. Dish Satellite vs. Star? Also internet service?
  • He says the ironies, the paradoxes, of the normalization of the Mars orbit and the other orbits, show that we have an elliptical orbit, with constantly non-uniform action.
  • Kepler showed that a planet moves round the Sun in an elliptical orbit which has the Sun in one of its two foci.
  • Although less than the full Shimura - Taniyama conjecture, this result does imply that the elliptic curve given above is modular, thereby proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
  • The _third glume_ is broadly elliptic or ovate, concave, awned, 3-nerved, with margins densely bearded above the middle and sparsely bearded dorsally on both the sides of the mid-nerve; the _palea_ is oblanceolate, as long as the glume, folded inside along the margins and outside along the middle, enclosing three _stamens_ and _ovary_. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • In fact the eccentricity of the earth's elliptical orbit has only a minor effect on the seasons. Fire and Ice - the Greenhouse Effect, Ozone Depletion, and Nuclear Winter
  • It is not exactly the same face because of the tilt of the Moon's rotational axis to its orbital plane around Earth, and the slight ellipticity of that orbit (the position of the observer on Earth also has a slight effect).
  • These problems form the basis of a conjecture: every elliptic curve defined over the rational field is a factor of the Jacobian of a modular function field.
  • Some years later Newton, using his newly discovered law of gravity, proved that all objects must orbit in elliptical paths.
  • To add insult to injury, the "pre-adult" man can be bestubbled and clutching a bottle of India pale ale, but Maxim culture dictates that the gal must be buffed, shined and "ellipticaled" to the hilt. Way to a Man's Heart May Not Be Through an Essay
  • After teaching at a gymnasium in Freiburg, he took up doctoral studies on hyperelliptic functions.
  • To get the full complex-number array of polarization states, we must consider circular and elliptical polarization.
  • To come to understand the grounds for this last rather elliptical claim, we must consider the logical status of ‘God is good.’
  • It's a virtuoso performance full of muted notes, plucked resonance, bristling clusters, elliptical melodies, rolled chords and tremolos.
  • Watching it now it seems even stranger that its oblique characters and elliptical, alien scenes of remote mountain-town malaise managed to hypnotise so many people for two series.
  • The reading room and its semi-elliptical extension are clad in monochromely pale Spanish stone counterpoised to the Portland stone of the Classical facades, in which patching is deliberately clearly visible.
  • Its strong simple story is interwoven with elliptical, semi-documentary still shots of life in the desert and portraits of our beautiful characters.
  • The inside of the shade creates an elliptical shape and the strong white area in the top central portion is the light bulb which also gives off a halation creating the ‘bump’ on the top of this reflection. Space Ships of the Visitors
  • Well, he discovered, in the elliptical function, that the Sun was located at one of the two foci of the relevant ellipse.
  • Fundamentally, a satellite in orbit moves in an elliptical path created by the gravitational force of a celestial body such as a planet.
  • This is where elliptic curves come into play: they induce algebraical groups, some of them suitable for DH and ElGamal crypto systems. Phrack Issue #63 (The Lost Circle of Hackers)
  • The crystalloids varied in shape, including elliptical, ovoid, rodlike, cylindrical, and occasionally rectangular forms.
  • The researchers attribute this to what they call spiral density wave shocks, which can take gas in a circular orbit, compress it to form stars, and cause it to go into a new, elliptical orbit. RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News
  • The ‘F-Range’ as the company calls it consists of five pieces: stepper, upright cycle, recumbent cycle, treadmill and elliptical trainer.
  • In our plants, which seem to be typical, the spores are nearly globose, varying to oval, and with the minute point where the spore was attached to the sterigma at the smaller end, the spores usually being finely granular, 6 -- 9 µ in diameter, and rarely varying towards short elliptical, showing a tendency to approach the shape of the spores of Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • The elliptical amphitheatre could have seated between 4,500 and 9,000 spectators.
  • The pickup uses a nude elliptical diamond stylus.
  • Assuming the conduits as elliptic pipes arranged in parallel, it is possible to calculate the conductivity of the xylem conduit lumina in a stem segment from their cross-sectional dimensions.
  • This week, Nathalie Kellens (KULeuven) and Patrick Degryse (Physico-Chemical Geology, KULeuven) classified debris from smithing activities retrieved from the urban and territorial surveys and from the excavations within the city center according to weight, volume, density, mineralogy, chemistry, ellipticity, flatness, position in the smithing hearth and profile of the cakes. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Metallurgical Studies Report 2

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