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单词 elliptic geometry
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ellipse /i- or e-lipsˈ/ (geometry)

noun

A figure produced by the section of one branch of a right circular cone by a plane passing obliquely and failing to meet the other branch

ORIGIN: L ellipsis, from Gr elleipsis from elleipein to fall short, from en in, and leipein to leave

ellipˈsis noun (pl ellipˈsēs)

  1. A figure of syntax by which a word or words are left out and merely implied (grammar)
  2. The mark (…) indicating ellipsis (printing)

ellipˈsograph noun

An instrument for drawing ellipses

ellipˈsoid noun (geometry)

  1. A surface of which every plane section is an ellipse or a circle
  2. A solid object of this shape

ellipsoiˈdal adjective

ellipˈtic or ellipˈtical adjective

  1. Of or relating to an ellipse
  2. Oval
  3. Having a part understood
  4. Concise or comprehensive
  5. Obscure or dubious
  6. (loosely) circumlocutory
  7. Rather narrow, slightly acute at each end and broadest in the middle (botany)
  8. Of or relating to ellipsis

ellipˈtically adverb

ellipticity /el-ip-tisˈi-ti/ noun

  1. Deviation from the form of a circle or sphere
  2. The difference between the equatorial and polar diameters of the earth

elliptic geometry or elliptic space noun

Riemannian geometry or space

geometry /jē-omˈi-tri or jomˈ/

noun
  1. That part of mathematics which deals with the properties of points, lines, surfaces and solids, either under classical Euclidean assumptions, or (in the case of elliptic geometry, hyperbolic geometry, etc) involving postulates not all of which are identical with Euclid's
  2. Any study of a mathematical system in which figures undergo transformations, concerned with discussion of those properties of the figures which remain constant
  3. A textbook of geometry (archaic)
ORIGIN: Gr geōmetriā, from earth, and metron a measure

geomˈeter noun

  1. A geometrician
  2. A geometrid caterpillar or moth

geometric /-metˈ/ or geometˈrical adjective

  1. Relating to or according to geometry
  2. (eg of a pattern, design or composition) consisting of or using simple figures such as geometry deals with

geometˈrically adverb

geometrician /-me-trishˈən/ noun

A person skilled in geometry

geomˈetrid noun

Any moth of the family or superfamily Geometˈridae whose caterpillars are loopers

geomˈetrist noun

geometrīzāˈtion or geometrīsāˈtion noun

geomˈetrize or geomˈetrise transitive verb and intransitive verb

  1. To work geometrically
  2. To show in geometric form

geometric(al) progression noun

A series of quantities each of which has the same ratio to its predecessor

geometric mean see under mean3

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