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El·lipse

/əˈlips/

noun
- 1. a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base.
Word Origin late 17th century: via French from Latin ellipsis (see ellipsis).
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Type of curve on a plane
In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant. It generalizes a circle, which is the special type of ellipse in which the two focal points are the same. The elongation of an ellipse is measured by its eccentricity, a number ranging from (the limiting case of a circle) t... Wikipedia
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