A cone and a cylinder can be cut by the same ellipse.
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Ellipse
//ɪˈlɪps//
Synonyms for "ellipse" (23 found)
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4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
11 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
10 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
Translations
62 translations across 54 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- إِهْلِيلَج noun (curve)
- قَطْعٌ نَاقِص noun (curve)
Armenian
1 entries- էլիպս noun (curve)
Asturian
1 entries- elipse noun (curve)
Belarusian
1 entries- э́ліпс noun (curve)
Bengali
1 entries- উপবৃত্ত noun (curve)
Bulgarian
1 entries- елипса noun (curve)
Catalan
1 entries- el·lipse noun (curve)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 橢圓 /椭圆 noun (curve)
Czech
1 entries- elipsa noun (curve)
Danish
1 entries- ellipse noun (curve)
Dutch
1 entries- ellips noun (curve)
Esperanto
1 entries- elipso noun (curve)
Estonian
1 entries- ellips noun (curve)
Faroese
2 entries- eggklingra noun (curve)
- ellipsa noun (curve)
Finnish
1 entries- ellipsi noun (curve)
French
1 entries- ellipse noun (curve)
Galician
1 entries- elipse noun (curve)
Georgian
1 entries- ელიფსი noun (curve)
German
1 entries- Ellipse noun (curve)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֵלִיפְּסָה noun (curve)
Hindi
1 entries- दीर्घवृत्त noun (curve)
Hungarian
1 entries- ellipszis noun (curve)
Icelandic
2 entries- sporbaugur noun (curve)
- sporbaugur noun (curve)
Interlingua
1 entries- ellipse noun (curve)
Irish
1 entries- éilips noun (curve)
Italian
1 entries- ellisse noun (curve)
Japanese
1 entries- 楕円 noun (curve)
Kannada
1 entries- ದೀರ್ಘವೃತ್ತ noun (curve)
Khmer
1 entries- អេលីប noun (curve)
Korean
1 entries- 타원 noun (curve)
Latvian
1 entries- elipse noun (curve)
Mongolian
2 entries- зууван noun (curve)
- эллипс noun (curve)
Māori
1 entries- pororapa noun (curve)
Navajo
1 entries- názbąsgo heeneez noun (curve)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ellipse noun (curve)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ellipse noun (curve)
Persian
2 entries- بیضی noun (curve)
- خایهدیس noun (curve)
Polish
1 entries- elipsa noun (curve)
Portuguese
1 entries- elipse noun (curve)
Romanian
1 entries- elipsă noun (curve)
Russian
1 entries- э́ллипс noun (curve)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- elipsa noun (curve)
- елипса noun (curve)
Shona
1 entries- denderende noun (curve)
Slovak
1 entries- elipsa noun (curve)
Slovene
2 entries- elipsa noun (curve)
- pakrog noun (curve)
Spanish
1 entries- elipse noun (curve)
Swedish
1 entries- ellips noun (curve)
Tagalog
2 entries- duyog noun (curve)
- tambilugan noun (curve)
Tamil
1 entries- நீள்வட்டம் noun (curve)
Thai
1 entries- วงรี noun (curve)
Turkish
1 entries- elips noun (curve)
Ukrainian
1 entries- е́ліпс noun (curve)
Uzbek
1 entries- ellips noun (curve)
Vietnamese
1 entries- elíp noun (curve)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Now the property of a circle is that every point of it is situated at the same distance from the centre, but in an ellipse there are two points within it, the "foci," and the sum of the distances of any point on the circumference from these two foci is constant.
Source: tatoeba (11930731)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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