ellipse

See also: Ellipse and eclipse

English

Etymology

From French ellipse. Doublet of ellipsis.

ellipse

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪps/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪps/, /əˈlɪps/, /iˈlɪps/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈlɪps/, /ɪˈlɪps/
• Rhymes: -ɪps

Noun

ellipse (plural ellipses)

1. (geometry) 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.

Synonyms

• oval (in non-technical use)

Derived terms

• circle-ellipse problem

Translations

curve

• Arabic: إِهْلِيلَج‎ m (ʔihlīlaj)
• Armenian: էլիպս (hy) (ēlips)
• Belarusian: э́ліпс m (élips)
• Bengali: উপবৃত্ত (upobritto)
• Bulgarian: елипса f (elipsa)
• Catalan: el·lipse (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橢圓／椭圆 (zh) (tuǒyuán)

• Czech: elipsa (cs) f
• Danish: ellipse c
• Dutch: ellips (nl)
• Esperanto: elipso
• Estonian: ellips
• Faroese: eggklingra f, ellipsa f
• Finnish: ellipsi (fi)
• French: ellipse (fr) f
• Georgian: ელიფსი (elipsi)
• German: Ellipse (de) f
• Hebrew: אֵלִיפְּסָה‎ (he) f (elípsa)
• Hindi: दीर्घवृत्त (dīrghavŕtt)
• Hungarian: ellipszis (hu)
• Icelandic: sporbaugur (is) m, sporbaugur (is) m
• Interlingua: ellipse (ia)
• Irish: éilips m
• Italian: ellisse (it) f
• Japanese: 楕円 (ja) (だえん, daen)
• Kannada: ದೀರ್ಘವೃತ್ತ (kn) (dīrghavṛtta)
• Khmer: អេលីប (ʼeeliip)
• Korean: 타원 (ko) (tawon)
• Latvian: elipse (lv) f
• Maori: pororapa
• Mongolian: эллипс (ellips), зууван (mn) (zuuvan)
• Navajo: heeneezgo názbąs
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ellipse (no) m

  Nynorsk: ellipse m

• Persian: بیضی‎ (fa) (bizi), خایه‌دیس‎ (xâye-dis)
• Polish: elipsa (pl) f
• Portuguese: elipse (pt) f
• Romanian: elipsă (ro) f
• Russian: э́ллипс (ru) (éllips)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: елипса f

  Roman: elipsa (sh) f

• Shona: denderende
• Slovak: elipsa (sk) f
• Slovene: elipsa f
• Spanish: elipse (es) f
• Swedish: ellips (sv) c
• Tagalog: tambilugan, duyog
• Tamil: நீள்வட்டம் (ta) (nīḷvaṭṭam)
• Thai: วงรี (th) (wong-rii)
• Turkish: elips (tr)
• Ukrainian: е́ліпс m (élips)
• Uzbek: ellips (uz)
• Vietnamese: elíp

Verb

ellipse (third-person singular simple present ellipses, present participle ellipsing, simple past and past participle ellipsed)

1. (grammar) To remove from a phrase a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.

   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.

Related terms

• ellipsis
• ellipsoid
• elliptic
• elliptical

 

See also

• circle
• conic section
• hyperbola
• parabola

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ellīpsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.lips/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

ellipse f (plural ellipses)

1. (geometry) ellipse
2. (grammar, rhetoric) ellipsis

Further reading

• “ellipse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

ellipse

1. ablative singular of ellipsis

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis).

Noun

ellipse m (definite singular ellipsen, indefinite plural ellipser, definite plural ellipsene)

1. (geometry) an ellipse
2. (grammar, rhetoric, typography) an ellipsis

Derived terms

• superellipse

References

• “ellipse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis).

Noun

ellipse m (definite singular ellipsen, indefinite plural ellipsar, definite plural ellipsane)

1. (geometry) an ellipse
2. (grammar, rhetoric, typography) an ellipsis

Derived terms

• superellipse

References

• “ellipse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.