Noun: ellipse
| Singular | ellipse |
| Plural | ellipses |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: oval (synonymous in non-technical use)
Nouns inflected like ellipse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French ellipse. Learned borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis). Doublet of ellipsis. See: French Nouns '
ellipse', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἔλλειψις'.