Ellipses is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ellipses meaning
plural of ellipse
Using Ellipses
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of ellipse
- In the example corpus, ellipses often appears in combinations such as: ellipses and, ellipses are, the ellipses.
Context around Ellipses
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ellipses
- In this selection, "ellipses" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, closed, search, contained, implausible, menu and omitted stand out and add context to how "ellipses" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about those ellipses a white and and search ellipses and min. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ellipses" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ellipses
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ellipses are common in physics, astronomy and engineering. (8 words)
Ellipses may also be used where sets have infinitely many members. (11 words)
Godlewski and P.A. Raviart, Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, Ellipses, 1991. (12 words)
We didn't know which of the witnesses testifying about Donald Trump's crimes would start to shed light on why the Donald Trump released of his crime call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy contained ellipses in the most curious of places. (42 words)
He provides the following examples: In legal writing in the United States, Rule 5.3 in the Bluebook citation guide governs the use of ellipses and requires a space before the first dot and between the two subsequent dots. (39 words)
Caspar, Kepler, p. 133 Finding that an elliptical orbit fit the Mars data, he immediately concluded that all planets move in ellipses, with the sun at one focus—Kepler's first law of planetary motion. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
After all that ’80s uproar, Serra had now beguiled audiences in 1997 with the ellipses’ implausible geometry, their woozy curvature.
Really strange glitch means the ellipses menu on the toolbar of File Explorer can go off the top of the screen so it's not usable in Windows 11.
In the early stages of a solar system's formation, these protoplanetary disks cause dynamical friction, causing young planets to spiral inwards rather than complete perfect, closed ellipses.
Local search orientations were derived for each domain and search ellipses and min/max samples modified as per the interpolated pass number (1, 2 and 3).
And about those ellipses — a White House official clarified that they indicate a pause or break in Trump's speech, not missing words.
Some of the ellipses omitted Trump’s suggestion to Zelensky that there are recordings of Joe Biden, according to one of the people familiar with the testimony.
We didn't know which of the witnesses testifying about Donald Trump's crimes would start to shed light on why the Donald Trump released of his crime call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy contained ellipses in the most curious of places.
It will orbit Earth in expanding ellipses and, about two months later, cross into the moon’s orbit.
All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often improperly called great circles ), which converge at the north and south poles.
Annual aberration Stars at the ecliptic poles appear to move in circles, stars exactly in the ecliptic plane move in lines, and stars at intermediate angles move in ellipses.
Because ellipses are well-understood shapes, measuring the points of its extremes defined the exact shape mathematically, and made possible calculations for the entire orbit as well as predictions based on observation.
By demonstrating the aporias and ellipses of thought, Derrida hoped to show the infinitely subtle ways that this originary complexity, which by definition cannot ever be completely known, works its structuring and destructuring effects.
Caspar, Kepler, p. 133 Finding that an elliptical orbit fit the Mars data, he immediately concluded that all planets move in ellipses, with the sun at one focus—Kepler's first law of planetary motion.
Ellipses are common in physics, astronomy and engineering.
Ellipses in optimization theory It is sometimes useful to find the minimum bounding ellipse on a set of points.
Ellipses may also be used where sets have infinitely many members.
Elliptical galaxies have smooth, featureless light distributions and appear as ellipses in photographic images.
Godlewski and P.A. Raviart, Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, Ellipses, 1991.
He provides the following examples: In legal writing in the United States, Rule 5.3 in the Bluebook citation guide governs the use of ellipses and requires a space before the first dot and between the two subsequent dots.
In computational linguistics, one of the most influential theories of ellipsis is that ellipses are represented by free variables whose values are then determined using Higher-Order Unification (HOU).
Common combinations with ellipses
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ellipses and 5×
- ellipses are 5×
- the ellipses 3×
- ellipses in 3×
- of ellipses 3×
- in ellipses 2×
- and ellipses 2×
- ellipses with 2×
- as ellipses 2×