Elliptical

Definitions: Elliptical

Elliptical

Adjective

1. Containing or characterized by ellipsis; "the clause of comparison is often elliptical"- G.O.Curme.

2. Rounded like an egg.

3. Characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor.

Date "elliptical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Elliptical

Domain	Definitions
Geography	Egg-shaped galaxies, mostly massive and located in far-ranging clusters of galaxies; they commmonly show an absence of star making material and a total lack of supergiant stars of the type common in spirals. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Elliptical

Synonyms: egg-shaped (adj), elliptic (adj), oval (adj), ovate (adj), oviform (adj), ovoid (adj), prolate (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Elliptical

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circularity	Adjective: round, rounded, circular, annular, orbicular; oval, ovate; elliptic, elliptical; egg-shaped; pear-shaped; cycloidal; Noun: spherical.
Conciseness	Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Elliptical

English words defined with "elliptical": Calostoma ravenelii, celestial orbit, centripetal acceleration, comet, Cylindroid ♦ Dead rising, depend, dulcimer ♦ elliptic ♦ family Micrococcaceae, four-centered arch ♦ German bit ♦ Hanse ♦ I beg to, India-rubber tree ♦ Lampris regius ♦ Micrococcaceae, moonfish ♦ opah, orbit ♦ Pleurosigma, Pluto, Put case ♦ Quercus shumardii ♦ Race course ♦ Shumard oak, Shumard red oak, slater ♦ That, Tudor arch ♦ Wild leek, woodlouse ♦ Yaupon. (references)

Specialty definitions using "elliptical": apogee stage techniques, argument of perigee ♦ Berger symptom, Berger's sign, Bohr atom, Bohr-Sommerfeld model, Bourdon tube ♦ Cold Without ♦ elliptical orbits, elliptical polarization, elliptical system, elliptically polarised, elliptically polarized, elliptically symmetric distributions, ellipticity ratio, Elliptocytosis, Hereditary ♦ fanned-beam antenna ♦ Give it Him ♦ Kepler's Fairy ♦ linear polarization, lunar perigee ♦ Omission, oriented lake ♦ periclinal structure ♦ quaquaversal fold, quaquaversal structure ♦ range only measurement of trajectory and recording, Rayleigh wave ♦ satellite revolution, sausages, Sporadotrichina ♦ transfer orbit ♦ wild yeasts. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Elliptical

Domain	Title
Books	Application of the Virtual Crack Closure Technque to Calculate Stress Intensity Factors for Through Cracks With an Oblique Elliptical Crack Front) (reference) Elliptical Fiber Waveguides (The Artech House Optoeletronics Library) (reference) Fresh Views of Elliptical Galaxies: Proceedings of the Inaoe International Meeting Held in Pueblo, Mexico, 14-17 March 1995 (reference) Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art In, Of, and from the Feminine (reference) Stochastic deviation from elliptical shape : an applied study (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	L.R. Nelson 1940 Elliptical Gazing Ball 48" Dual Rotating Sprinkler (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Elliptical

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Photo Album: Elliptical

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	"Elliptical Orbit" (movie) by Hassan Sedaghat. Use the Scrollbar to vary A, B, and C.		HST has resolved, to an unprecedented detail of .1 arc second, a mysterious elliptical ring of ...Credit: NASA.
	Deep survey image of spiral and elliptical galaxies.Credit: NASA.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Elliptical

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The excisional biopsy (including punch, saucerization, or elliptical excision) should include a portion of underlying subcutaneous fat for accurate microstaging. (references)
Economic History	Romania	Extending inland halfway across the Balkan Peninsula and covering a large elliptical area of 237,499 square kilometers (91,699 sq. mi.), Romania occupies the greater part of the lower basin of the Danube River system and the hilly eastern regions of the middle Danube basin. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Elliptical

"Elliptical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Elliptical" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	115	30,138

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Elliptical

Expression using "elliptical": elliptical wing. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "elliptical": elliptical-shaped.
	Ending with "elliptical": semi-elliptical.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Elliptical

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
elliptical trainer	651
elliptical machine	399
elliptical	373
elliptical exercise machine	49
precor elliptical	49
elliptical trainer review	49
nordic track elliptical	46
elliptical cross trainer	42
elliptical exercise equipment	34
elliptical review	29
elliptical exerciser	29
reebok elliptical	25
life fitness elliptical	24
proform elliptical	23
elliptical equipment	23
elliptical exercise	22
elliptical crosstrainer	22
elliptical galaxy	21
elliptical trainer vision	15
orbitrek elliptical	14
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Modern Translations: Elliptical

Language		Translations for "elliptical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		eliptik (elliptic), vezak (egg-shaped, elliptic, oval, oviform, ovoid, prolate). (various references)

Arabic		‏أهليجي (elliptic, oval), ‏بيضاوي الشكل (elliptic). (various references)

Bulgarian		елипсовиден (elliptic, oval), елиптичен (elliptic). (various references)

Chinese		省略 (Abbreviate, Abbreviated, Abbreviating). (various references)

Czech		eliptický (elliptic), elipsovitý (elliptic, ovoid). (various references)

Danish		ellipseformet galakse. (various references)

French		elliptique (elliptic). (various references)

German		ellyptisch, elliptischen. (various references)

Greek		ελλειπτικόσ (defective, elliptic), ελλειπτικός γαλαξίας. (various references)

Hungarian		elliptikus (elliptic), szókihagyásos (elliptic). (various references)

Italian		ellittico (ellipsis, elliptic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		歪 (crooked, distorted, irregular, oval, warped), 小判形 (oblong, oval). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いびつ (crooked, distorted, irregular, oval, warped), �"ば�"がた (an ellipse or oval, oblong, oval). (various references)

Korean		타원형 (Oval). (various references)

Manx		fockle-vaihagh, eelipsagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ellipticalay

Portuguese		elíptico (elm), galáxia elipsoidal. (various references)

Romanian		eliptic (elliptic). (various references)

Russian		эллиптический (elliptic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		eliptičan (brief, elliptic). (various references)

Spanish		elíptico (elliptic). (various references)

Swedish		elliptisk (elliptic). (various references)

Turkish		eliptik (elliptic), elips şeklinde (elliptic), eksiltili (elliptic), oval (elliptic, oval, ovoid), bazı sözcükleri çıkarılmış (elliptic). (various references)

Ukranian		овальний (elliptic, olivary, oval, ovate, oviform), з пропуском (elliptic), еліптичний (elliptic). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Elliptical

Derivations
	Words beginning with "elliptical": elliptically, ellipticals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Elliptical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eliptical, ellipitcal, ellipitical, elliptica, eplliptical. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Elliptical"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "elliptical" (pronounced uli"ptikul)
6	-p t i k u l	optical.
5	-t i k u l	acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, astronautical, critical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, egotistical, fanatical, geopolitical, heretical, hypercritical, hypocritical, identical, logistical, mathematical, mystical, nonpolitical, pharmaceutical, problematical, sabbatical, statistical, tactical, testicle, theoretical, uncritical, vertical, viatical.
4	-i k u l	archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, graphical, gynecological, helical, historical, hysterical, icicle, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, lyrical, magical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, technical, technological, teleological, theatrical, theological, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, virological, whimsical, zoological.
3	-k u l	aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle.
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Anagrams: Elliptical

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-l-l-p-t"
	-2 letters: clitella, elliptic.
	-3 letters: allelic, aplitic, ciliate, lapilli, pelitic, plicate.
	-4 letters: aplite, atelic, callet, caplet, elicit, epical, illite, italic, pallet, placet, plaice, plicae, plical, taille, telial.
	-5 letters: cella, celli, cilia, clapt, cleat, clept, clipt, eclat, epact, ileac, ileal, iliac, ilial, lapel, leapt, lepta, licit, lilac, litai, palet, petal, pical, pieta, pilea, pilei, place, plait, plate, pleat, plica, telia, telic, tepal, tical.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-l-l-p-t"
	+1 letter: ellipticals.
	+2 letters: elliptically.
	+3 letters: epileptically.
	+4 letters: geopolitically, philatelically.
	+5 letters: planimetrically.
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