Ellipse

//ɪˈlɪps// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A park in Washington, D.C., United States.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
Noun
  1. 1
    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. 2
    a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it wordnet
  3. 3
    Ellipsis, the removal from a phrase of a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
Verb
  1. 1
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French ellipse. Doublet of ellipsis.

Etymology 2

From French ellipse. Doublet of ellipsis.

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