Crossword clues for ellipses
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Ellipsis \El*lip"sis\ ([e^]l*l[i^]p"s[i^]s), n.; pl. Ellipses ([e^]l*l[i^]p"s[=e]z). [L., fr. Gr. 'e`lleipsis a leaving, defect, fr. 'ellei`pein to leave in, fall short; 'en in + lei`pein to leave. See In, and Loan, and cf. Ellipse.]
(Gram.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
(Geom.) An ellipse. [Obs.]
(Printing) a printing symbol, usually three periods in a row (. . .), indicating the omission of some part of a text; -- used commonly in quotations, so as to suppress words not essential to the meaning. A long dash (
---) and three asterisks (* * *) are sometimes used with the same meaning.
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Ellipses is the plural form of two different English words:
- Ellipse, a type of conic section in geometry
- Ellipsis, a three-dot punctuation mark (…)
Ellipses may also refer to:
- Ellipses, a French publication under the direction of Aymeric Chauprade
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Usage examples of "ellipses".
Although the main petiole is continually and rapidly describing small ellipses during the day, yet after the great nocturnal rising movement has commenced, if dots are made every 2 or 3 minutes, as was done for an hour between 9.
The direction of the longer axes of the ellipses made during the same day or on successive days generally changed completely, so as to stand at right angles to one another.
From the particulars above given, and remembering in the case of twining plants and of tendrils, how difficult it is not to mistake their bending to all points of the compass for true torsion, we are led to believe that the stems of this Ceratophyllum circumnutate, probably in the shape of narrow ellipses, each completed in about 26 h.
The movement is chiefly in a vertical plane, but as the ascending and descending lines never coincided, there was always some lateral movement, and thus irregular ellipses were formed.
The bead moved seven times from side to side, and thus described 3 ½ ellipses in 10 3/4 h.
It was, however, manifest that two somewhat irregular ellipses were nearly completed in 9 h.
The actual length of the longer of the two ellipses described by the stem was about .
The line was so strongly zigzag that it apparently represented five ellipses, with their longer axes pointing in various directions.
Owing to the lateral movement shortly after midday, the descending and ascending lines did not coincide, and irregular ellipses were described during each 24 h.
The number of irregular ellipses or circles made within a given time differs much with different species.
The diagrams generally approach in form to a succession of more or less irregular ellipses or ovals, with their longer axes directed to different points of the compass during the same day or on succeeding days.
Three irregular ellipses, with their longer axes somewhat differently directed, were almost completed in the first 15 h.
As far as we could judge, the advancing and retreating lines did not coincide, and if so, extremely minute ellipses were each time described.
The ellipses, or the zigzag lines representing drawnout ellipses, are generally very narrow.
The main petiole of a leaf having been secured to a stick, close to the base of the subpetiole of the terminal leaflet, the latter described two small ellipses between 10.