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.
2. (grammar) The removal from a phrase of a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.

Synonyms

• oval (in non-technical use)

Derived terms

• Cassini ellipse
• circle-ellipse problem
• ellipsograph
• ellipsometer
• ellipsometry
• hemiellipse
• hyperellipse
• hypoellipse
• nanoellipse
• semiellipse

 

Translations

curve

• Arabic: إِهْلِيلَج m (ʔihlīlaj), قَطْعٌ نَاقِص m (qaṭʕun nāqiṣ)
• Armenian: էլիպս (hy) (ēlips)
• Belarusian: э́ліпс m (élips)
• Bengali: উপবৃত্ত (bn) (upobritto)
• Bulgarian: елипса (bg) 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, pakrog m
• 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

Danish

Noun

ellipse c (singular definite ellipsen, plural indefinite ellipser)

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

Inflection

Declension of ellipse

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ellipse	ellipsen	ellipser	ellipserne
genitive	ellipses	ellipsens	ellipsers	ellipsernes

Further reading

• “ellipse” in Den Danske Ordbog

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.