Elliptical

Quick meaning: Elliptical is an adjective meaning In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval.

Meaning

In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval.

More Meanings

1. Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
2. (of speech) Concise, condensed.
3. (mathematics, rare) Elliptic.
4. (astronomy) An elliptical galaxy.
5. An elliptical trainer.

Example Sentences

If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us.

He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.

Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.

Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.

Word Forms

• ellipticals

Synonyms for elliptical

Depending on context, synonyms include elliptic, concise, prolate, ovate, ovoid, rounded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include elliptic, prolate, oval, ovoid, ovate, rounded.

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