ellipse

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ellipse /ɪˈlɪps/

▶noun 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.

– origin C17: via Fr. from L. ellipsis (see ellipsis).

'ellipse' also found in these Oxford entries:

conic section - elliptic - focus - major axis - minor axis - sector - trammel

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