Elliptic

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or having the shape of an ellipse.
  • adjective. Containing or characterized by ellipsis.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of or relating to extreme economy of oral or written expression.
  • adjective. Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse.
  • Pertaining to or marked by ellipsis; defective; having a part left out.
  • In entomology, elongate-ovate; more than twice as long as broad, parallel-sided in the middle, and rounded at both ends, but in general more broadly so at the base: applied especially to the abdomen, as in many Hymenoptera.
  • In mathematics, having a pair of characteristic elements imaginary: as, an elliptic involution.
  • See space.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
  • adjective. Having a part omitted.
  • adjective. leaving out information essential to comprehension; so concise as to be difficult to understand; obscure or ambiguous; -- of speech or writing.
  • adjective. See under Chuck.
  • adjective. an instrument arranged for drawing ellipses.
  • adjective. See Function.
  • adjective. See Integral.
  • adjective. See under Polarization.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Related to an ellipse or its mathematical definition.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. rounded like an egg
  • adjective. (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
  • adjective. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
  • Word Usage
    "There is something in gauge theory called the elliptic sequence."
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