elliptical

Modifying Another Word

• highly: FAST was launched on August 21, 1996 from a Pegasus rocket into a highly elliptical orbit.
• slightly: The better known Bourdon gage works by allowing the pressure into a curved tube, itself of a slightly elliptical cross section.
• roughly: Four roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through window of photo lab.
• very: These are on very elliptical orbits, and almost all approach within 38 AU of the Sun.
• somewhat: The real areole somewhat elliptical and hardly 1 to 2 mm large.
• so: Interactions with Neptune and Uranus have made their orbits so elliptical.

Modifies a noun

• orbit: These density waves are twisted by the elliptical orbits into spiral arms.
• galaxy: The biggest type of galaxy in actual terms are a type called giant elliptical galaxies.
• trainer: Monday I either run or do the elliptical trainer.
• arc: We will not be needing any of these tricks here all we will need is the commands that make a dotted elliptical arc.
• arch: The 1831 Middle Warehouse on the Bridgewater Canal, in Castlefield, has an elliptical arch over the holes for barges.
• shape: Experts believe that the nose of the torpedo features what is likely to be a flat disk with a circular or perhaps elliptical shape.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: This means that a perfect circle would appear elliptical on the screen.
• become: This causes the circular orbit of the water to become elliptical.

Preposition: in

• shape: Johannes Kepler discovered that the orbits of the planets were elliptical in shape rather than circular.