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ellipse.

ellipse (the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points 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)

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noun/e.lips/
  1. ellipse (the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points 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)

    feminine
  2. ellipsis (the removal from a phrase of a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated)

    feminine · rhetoric
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis).

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