elliptic

• That first magnet bend on the big elliptic is always the worst. —  August, 1947
• He manages to find some rational points on these curves -- elliptic curves, as it happens, in what seems to be their first known occurence -- by means of what amounts (in geometrical terms) to a tangent construction. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Then it will be observed that even after postulating the three laws, Newton was unable to account for the elliptic orbits of the planets, until he had added a Corollary known as the Parallelogram of Forces ART. —  Aether and Gravitation
• Rachilla of spikelets tough, persistent flowering glumes falling away from base upwards C. Spikelets pedicellate Spikelets flat, ovate-elliptic or oblong, lateral nerves of flowering glumes very prominent and straight, almost percurrent; palea deciduous with their glumes 2. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The leaves are elliptic, acuminate, and marked with three longitudinal nerves. —  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise ; Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, ;c.; of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, ;c;.

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