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Elliptically meaning
in the form of an ellipse | using ellipsis
Example sentences (6)
At most points along the fiber the net polarization will be an elliptically polarized state, with a return to the original polarization state after an integer number of beat lengths.
Because the Earth orbits the Sun elliptically as the Earth spins on an inclined axis, this period can be up to 7.9 seconds more than (or less than) 24 hours.
Cladophora is frequently covered with Cocconeis, an elliptically shaped diatom; Vaucheria is often covered with small forms.
For instance, right circularly polarized light reflected from a dielectric surface at grazing incidence (an angle beyond the Brewster angle ) will still emerge as right handed, but elliptically, polarized.
In this case the solutions are elliptically polarized electromagnetic waves with phase velocities (where μ is the magnetic permeability ).
Linear polarized light reflected from a metal at non-normal incidence will generally become elliptically polarized.