Elliptical in a sentence

The Elliptical mode is well-suited for elliptical machine workouts.

A beam may, for example, have an elliptical cross section, in which case the orientation of the beam diameter must be specified, for example with respect to the major or minor axis of the elliptical cross section.

A combination of linear and circular birefringence will have as basis polarizations two orthogonal elliptical polarizations; the term "elliptical birefringence" however is rarely used.

Due to this inclination, the elliptical true orbit will project an elliptical apparent orbit onto the plane of the sky.

Elliptical gears Two non-circular gears with the same elliptical outline, each pivoting around one focus and positioned at the proper angle, turn smoothly while maintaining contact at all times.

Ismael Boulliau accepted elliptical orbits but replaced Kepler's area law with uniform motion in respect to the empty focus of the ellipse, while Seth Ward used an elliptical orbit with motions defined by an equant.

It had some success explaining the rotational velocity curves of elliptical and dwarf elliptical galaxies that it was designed to match, but fails on galaxy cluster gravitational lensing.

Shell galaxy NGC 3923 Elliptical Shell Galaxy-Hubble Space Telescope photograph A shell galaxy is a type of elliptical galaxy where the stars in the galaxy's halo are arranged in concentric shells.

To develop his theory Hertz used his observation of elliptical Newton's rings formed upon placing a glass sphere upon a lens as the basis of assuming that the pressure exerted by the sphere follows an elliptical distribution.

A friend says she used a GHD elliptical iron.

Bridgers, who is twenty-eight years old with ice-blond hair and a health-goth style, has the most mainstream following of the boygenius members for her grungy elliptical koans about sunbaked sorrow.

There is an elliptical allusion to a collision with “a bridge” as a foundational experience, and she describes waking up in a disorientatingly strange bed, which turns out to be her own.

It was a sideways glance at her country of origin, fuelled by her curiosity about places and her unceasing search for connectivity, an elliptical rather than a full circle.

Outer dark comets are larger—about a mile wide in size—and on more elliptical orbits farther out in the solar system.

The Falcon 9 launching the Polaris Dawn mission will place the Crew Dragon spacecraft into an elliptical orbit of 190 by 1,200 kilometers, Menon said.

The M87 black hole has a mass 6 billion times that of our sun and inhabits the center of a giant elliptical galaxy.

The moon orbits Earth on a slightly elliptical path, so during any given orbit, it reaches a point when it’s closest and farthest.

Three smaller box-like squares with rounded edges, to house the cameras, are arranged vertically within this slightly raised, elliptical island.

X-37B started executing a series of aerobraking maneuvers to change from a highly elliptical orbit to a lower orbit.

Cubii Pro Under-Desk Elliptical is an excellent work out therapy that should be availed by each one of us.