Elliptic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or having the shape of an ellipse.
  • adj. Containing or characterized by ellipsis.
  • adj. Of or relating to extreme economy of oral or written expression.
  • adj. Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Related to an ellipse or its mathematical definition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
  • adj. Having a part omitted.
  • adj. leaving out information essential to comprehension; so concise as to be difficult to understand; obscure or ambiguous; -- of speech or writing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse.
  • Pertaining to or marked by ellipsis; defective; having a part left out.
  • In entomology, elongate-ovate; more than twice as long as broad, parallel-sided in the middle, and rounded at both ends, but in general more broadly so at the base: applied especially to the abdomen, as in many Hymenoptera.
  • In mathematics, having a pair of characteristic elements imaginary: as, an elliptic involution.
  • See space.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. rounded like an egg
  • adj. (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
  • adj. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
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    rounded    unsubdivided    simple    concise    elliptical   
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