name
Meaning 1
A park in Washington, D.C., United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ellipse
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ɪˈlɪps/
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Canada, US: /əˈlɪps/
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Canada, US: /iˈlɪps/
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Australian: /ɪˈlɪps/
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name
Meaning 2
A park in Washington, D.C., United States.
Synonym of President's Park South, a 52 acre city park, south of the South Lawn of the White House, between the White House estate and the Washington Monument grounds of the National Mall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: President's Park South
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A park in Washington, D.C., United States.
Synonym of President's Park South, a 52 acre city park, south of the South Lawn of the White House, between the White House estate and the Washington Monument grounds of the National Mall.
An elliptical oval grassy field in President's Park South
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
Examples
- Near-synonym: oval (synonymous in non-technical use)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: oval[Appendix:Glossary
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: conic section, shape
noun
Meaning 5
Alternative form of ellipsis: the removal from a phrase of a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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verb
Meaning 6
To remove from a phrase a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- 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.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: oval
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: conic section, conic
Narrower terms: circle
History
Etymology
From French ellipse. Learned borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis). Doublet of ellipsis.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: إِهْلِيلَج (ʔihlīlaj) — curve
- Arabic: قَطْعٌ نَاقِص (qaṭʕun nāqiṣ) — curve
- Armenian: էլիպս (ēlips) — curve
- Asturian: elipse — curve
- Belarusian: э́ліпс (élips) — curve
- Bengali: উপবৃত্ত (upobritto) — curve
- Bulgarian: елипса (elipsa) — curve
- Catalan: el·lipse — curve
- Chinese Mandarin: 橢圓 /椭圆 (tuǒyuán) — curve
- Czech: elipsa — curve
- Czech: schodnice — curve
- Danish: ellipse — curve
- Dutch: ellips — curve
- Esperanto: elipso — curve
- Estonian: ellips — curve
- Faroese: eggklingra — curve
- Faroese: ellipsa — curve
- Finnish: ellipsi — curve
- French: ellipse — curve
- Galician: elipse — curve
- Georgian: ელიფსი (elipsi) — curve
- German: Ellipse — curve
- Hebrew: אֵלִיפְּסָה (elípsa) — curve
- Hindi: दीर्घवृत्त (dīrghavŕtt) — curve
- Hungarian: ellipszis — curve
- Icelandic: sporbaugur — curve
- Interlingua: ellipse — curve
- Irish: éilips — curve
- Italian: ellisse — curve
- Japanese: 楕円 (daen) — curve
- Kannada: ದೀರ್ಘವೃತ್ತ (dīrghavṛtta) — curve
- Khmer: អេលីប (ʼeeliip) — curve
- Korean: 타원 (tawon) — curve
- Latvian: elipse — curve
- Māori: pororapa — curve
- Mongolian: эллипс (ellips) — curve
- Mongolian: зууван (zuuvan) — curve
- Navajo: názbąsgo heeneez — curve
- Norwegian Bokmål: ellipse — curve
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ellipse — curve
- Persian: بیضی (bizi) — curve
- Persian: خایهدیس (xâye-dis) — curve
- Polish: elipsa — curve
- Portuguese: elipse — curve
- Romanian: elipsă — curve
- Russian: э́ллипс (éllips) — curve
- Serbo-Croatian: елипса — curve
- Serbo-Croatian: elipsa — curve
- Shona: denderende — curve
- Slovak: elipsa — curve
- Slovene: elipsa — curve
- Slovene: pakrog — curve
- Spanish: elipse — curve
- Swedish: ellips — curve
- Tagalog: tambilugan — curve
- Tagalog: duyog — curve
- Tamil: நீள்வட்டம் (nīḷvaṭṭam) — curve
- Thai: วงรี (wong-rii) — curve
- Turkish: elips — curve
- Ukrainian: е́ліпс (élips) — curve
- Uzbek: ellips — curve
- Vietnamese: elíp — curve
- Welsh: hirgylch — curve
Real reading context