ellipse

Etymology
From. .



Noun

 * 1)  A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone.

Synonyms

 * (in non-technical use)

Translations

 * Arabic: إِهْلِيلَج, قَطْعٌ نَاقِص
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: э́ліпс
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ellipse
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: elipso
 * Estonian: ellips
 * Faroese: eggklingra, ellipsa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ელიფსი
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दीर्घवृत्त
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: éilips
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Khmer: អេលីប
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Maori: pororapa
 * Mongolian: эллипс,
 * Navajo: heeneezgo názbąs
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ellipse
 * Persian:, خایه‌دیس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: елипса
 * Roman:
 * Shona: denderende
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: elipsa, pakrog
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tambilugan, duyog
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: е́ліпс
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: elíp

Verb

 * 1)  To remove from a phrase a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
 * In B's response to A's question:- (A: Would you like to go out?, B: I'd love to), the words that are ellipsed are go out. 

Noun

 * 1)  ellipsis
 * 1)  ellipsis

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  ellipsis
 * 1)  ellipsis

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  an
 * 2)  an ellipsis

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  an
 * 2)  an ellipsis