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Usage examples of ellipsis.

An adjoining peduncle described during the same time similar, though fewer, ellipses.

As will be seen, it was full of ellipses and was fragmentary in its character, though completely effective in fact: Know all men by these Presents, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

On the next day it circumnutated in a greater degree, describing four irregular ellipses, and by 3 P.

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.

In several other cases, for instance, when a leaf after describing during the day one or more fairly regular ellipses, zigzags much in the evening, it appears as if energy was being expended, so that the great evening rise or fall might coincide with the period of the day proper for this movement.

The most complex of all the movements performed by sleeping plants, is that when leaves or leaflets, after describing in the daytime several vertically directed ellipses, rotate greatly on their axes in the evening, by which twisting movement they occupy a wholly different position at night to what they do during the day.

But if so, it must be assumed that a bright lateral light completely stops circumnutation, for a plant thus exposed moves in a straight line towards it, without describing any ellipses or circles.

It returned also in a zigzag line, and then circumnutated regularly, describing three large ellipses during the remainder of the day.

There can be little doubt that it would ultimately have become upright by describing an additional number of irregular ellipses, one above the other.

A thousand Ouster angels, some of them armed with low-yield energy weapons or recoilless rifles, opened forcefield wings and flew toward the distant Pax ships in long, tacking ellipses along the crest of the solar wind.

Kundera resorts to ellipsis precisely in order to preserve the architectonic lightness and balance of such narrative and discursive complexity.

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.

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.

Sebastian Cabot Mappamundi of 1544 is an engraved map drawn in one ellipsis on the Bordone projection.

Her incomplete sentence was evidently an ellipsis, and that meant that something significant had been omitted for his consideration.