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Wiktionary

  1. adj. In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.
  2. adj. Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
  3. adj. of speech Concise, condensed.
  4. adj. mathematics, rare Alternative form of elliptic.
  5. adj. Being flat and in the shape of a twice-symmetrical ellipse; oval.
  6. n. astronomy An elliptical galaxy
  7. n. An elliptical trainer

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
  2. adj. rounded like an egg

Etymologies

  1. From elliptic + -al. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “What resulted was system of planets orbiting in elliptical, not circular, orbits described by three laws.”

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  • “The signals come from 2 satellites that are picked up by one smaller 33.5 by 26.5 in elliptical dish.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “The predictable love triangle that develops, and the equally predictable tragedy that results, are related almost entirely in short, elliptical scenes that strip down the basic story to its most essential details and moments.”

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  • “He speaks in short, elliptical snatches and views life with the detached outlook of an undertaker.”

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  • “Some eighty out of every one hundred galaxies are classified as elliptical galaxies.”

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  • “Two neutron stars circle each other closely in elliptical orbits.”

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  • “The two men conversed in short elliptical sentences, using many technical terms.”

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  • “I was sweating away my own business on that horrid torture device called the elliptical, which is supposed to simulate running but is really just another giant gerbil toy that contorts my old-before-their-time hips in unnatural ways, when the guy next to me asks me what I think about VP candidate Sarah Palin.”

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  • “The story is told entirely through Uram’s voiceover narration, in elliptical prose with poetic overtones.”

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equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘elliptical’

  1. concise
  1. rounded

same context (19)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. spherical
  2. concentric
  3. concave
  1. oblong
  2. semicircular
  3. parabolic
  1. elliptic
  2. globular
  3. hemispherical
  1. conical
  2. hexagonal
  3. horizontal
  1. octagonal
  2. irregular
  3. hyperbolic
  1. ovoid
  2. symmetrical
  3. serpentine
  1. outer

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. oval
  2. semi-elliptic
  3. sphendone
  4. eccentric
  5. ellipse
  6. India rubber tree
  7. wild leek
  8. cylindroid
  9. hanse
  10. cymbella
  11. lentelliptical
  12. minniebush
  13. nefer
  14. german bit
  15. microbacterium
  16. oblong-ellipsoid
  17. rising-line
  18. semioval
  19. spring-hanger
  1. Hajipur
  2. dead rising
  3. gecko
  4. alveolininæ
  5. circumnutate
  6. dipeltidæ
  7. enough
  8. equal-ended
  9. floor-hollow
  10. good
  11. head-rail
  12. Kuiper belt
  13. that
  14. i beg to
  15. but
  16. Tudor arch
  17. wood louse
  18. moon
  19. Pluto
  1. quercus shumardii
  2. shumard oak
  3. shumard red oak
  4. slater
  5. dome
  6. dulcimer
  7. family micrococcaceae
  8. four-centered arch
  9. lampris regius
  10. micrococcaceae
  11. moonfish
  12. opah
  13. orbit
  14. calostoma ravenelii
  15. celestial orbit
  16. centripetal acceleration
  17. comet
  18. olive
  19. out at
  1. pleurosigma
  2. put case
  3. racket
  4. spiracle
  5. wikiup
  6. yaupon
  7. aggregate
  8. as
  9. bacterium
  10. channel
  11. chasuble
  12. circumnutation
  13. cove
  14. curb-plate
  15. in
  16. iron-stain
  17. linckiidæ
  18. long
  19. orange
  1. pænula
  2. plenty
  3. present
  4. pseudalopex
  5. race-course
  6. sacodes
  7. sphincter
  8. swing
  9. antrophyum
  10. disturbance
  11. paha
  12. phacops
  13. pseudoceridæ
  14. ring
  15. sarinda
  16. scratcher
  17. thro'
  18. tonometer
  19. t-bulb
  1. tide
  2. vulva
  3. what
  4. whisper

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  • milosrdenstvi The billiard sharp who any one catches,
    His doom's extremely hard--
    He's made to dwell--
    In a dungeon cell
    On a spot that's always barred.
    And there he plays extravagant matches
    In fitless finger-stalls
    On a cloth untrue
    With a twisted cue
    And elliptical billiard balls!

    -- The Mikado Aug 20, 2008

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