Ellipse (disambiguation)

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In mathematics, an ellipse is a geometrical figure.

Ellipse may also refer to:

• Ellipse (figure of speech), a rhetorical suppression of words to give an expression more liveliness
• MacAdam ellipse, a chromaticity diagram
• Elliptic leaf shape
• Superellipse, a geometric figure

As a name, it may also be:

• The Ellipse, the five-furlong (1 km) circumference street within President's Park, just south of the White House, in Washington, D.C.
• Ellipse Programmé, a French animation studio
• Elipse (band), former Yugoslav rock band
• Ellipse (album), a 2009 album by Imogen Heap
• "Ellipse", a song from the album In Silence We Yearn by Oh Hiroshima
• Explorer Ellipse, an American homebuilt aircraft design
• La société Ellipse, a French aircraft manufacturer

Similar terms

• Ellipsis, a punctuation mark
• Eclipse, an astronomical event
• Elliptic function, a type of complex function
• Elliptic geometry, a type of non-Euclidean geometry
• Elliptical trainer, a form of exercise equipment

See also

• Ellipsis (disambiguation)