What does "ellipse" mean?
Ellipse: (Gram.) Omission. See Ellipsis.
Additional senses
- 2.The elliptical orbit of a planet. The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun; The dark Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse. Tennyson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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