What is "elliptical"

Usage examples of "elliptical".

The relief was elliptical, about three feet long, and carved with a rudimentary face-a depiction of the West Wind as an angel-like countenance.

It had announced in its elliptical way to Mayor Dagman Beyn, more than two hundred years ago, that it would live below the city.

Those on highly elliptical trajectories, those that cross the orbits of other planets, Will sooner or later collide or, by a near miss, be gravitationally ejected from the Solar System.

They are covered exteriorly with papillae of different sizes, many of which have an elliptical outline.

Each skull was twice as long as it was high, with large eyeholes, gaping pre-orbital fenestrae halfway down the snout, and elliptical nares.

The whole White House complex seemed to extend lengthwise to the east and west, surrounded by trees and an elliptical driveway to the south.

In Astronomy, Jake was, as usual, peering wistfully at a galaxy somewhere out on the marches of nowhen, trying to turn spiral arms into elliptical orbits without recourse to the calculations section.

The river again, writhing and orderless in the lunar night, the plumed snout of a still-rumbling factory, warehouses that marched past slowly on either side and seemed to glance back over their shoulders at the car, a stretch of black grass in which an elliptical pond glinted and winked.

Thanks to the effect of various gravities working on both the target sitebe it another ship, the Moon, or whereverand the ship launching the asteroid toward the target site, elliptical orbits and ever-changing flight times, successive approximations were the backbone of the asteroid-mining industry.

It has smooth heart-shaped leaves, and produces scarlet, elliptical berries larger than those of the White Bryony.

The canvas he was working on was an elliptical sail of monomolecular film nearly thirty thousand kilometers long.

We would meet the moon itself, with our supply depot, after our main engine burn at periapsis put us in an elliptical transfer orbit.

The foliage is entirely stemless, the nude flower stalks issuing from between the leaves, which are roundly toothed, evenly and deeply wrinkled, and elliptical in outline.

I found that with each mixture there was a time of exposure which would produce the deepest blue, that with over-exposure the blue gradually turned gray, and that if a curve should be plotted, the abscissas of which should represent the time of exposure, and the ordinates of which should represent the intensity of the blue the curves drawn would have approximately an elliptical form, so that if one knew the exact time of exposure which would give the best result with any mixture, one might deviate two or three minutes either way from that time without producing a noticeable result.

He put together a sequence of five burns that took them into a long, elliptical matching orbit with the Airbus tanks.