elliptical
എലിപ്റ്റിക്കൽ
definition
adjective
an elliptical lyrical style
(of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.
example
For two bodies, the solution is easy: the two bodies move around each other in 'elliptical' orbits - or follow parabolic or hyperbolic paths in some special cases.
Bush was as 'elliptical' in his victory speech about what lies ahead in Iraq as about the domestic issues he touched on, which included the economy, taxes, Social Security and education.
When little observations popped out, they had 'elliptical' power.
I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of 'elliptical' clauses, but this example took me (intuitively, not analytically) aback.
Newton favoured comets having parabolic orbits, but Halley believed that 'elliptical' orbits might exist.
Small ovoid and 'elliptical' silver baskets were made in the neoclassical style to hold sugar as part of the tea service.
It consists of four parts, the 'elliptical' garden incorporating an oval pool, the Yew garden, the upper terrace and a lower terrace and pergola, all four linked by a terrace which once fronted the original house.
That is a phrase which, in our respectful submission, is also apt to mislead, it being an 'elliptical' noun phrase.
At times, 'elliptical' speech or writing is so concise that listeners and readers must supply missing elements through guesswork or special knowledge, and if they cannot, they fail to understand.
Visitors will be able to walk beneath the concave underside of the 'elliptical' bean-shaped form.
The Earth's orbit changes from being almost a perfect circle to its 'elliptical' form and then back again.
The 'elliptical' questions should be generally acceptable, since they don't have soon (with its usual component of afterness) in combination with before.
Its 'elliptical' paraboloid shape was selected because it could be easily described mathematically, simplifying both design and construction.
He noted that if the bob was drawn back and released then it followed an 'elliptical' path, and moreover the major axis rotated in the direction of revolution exactly as did the apsides of the moon's orbit.
He appears to be shuffling the decks in an 'elliptical' power move.
Clutch size is two and eggs are white, non-glossy and an 'elliptical' oval shape.
He had achieved this by the time he was eighteen but at this stage he did not know even that the moon and planets described 'elliptical' orbits.
Frost's text at times verges on the obtuse - her language and often convoluted and 'elliptical' form of writing may well daunt the less academic reader.
These are spiral, 'elliptical' , barred spiral and irregular.
Watching it now it seems even stranger that its oblique characters and 'elliptical' , alien scenes of remote mountain-town malaise managed to hypnotise so many people for two series.
If you look closely, you can see my chainrings aren't just oval or 'elliptical' as others have been, but is elliptical in three dimensions.
No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's 'elliptical' logic and weird similes.
The writing may be a bit 'elliptical' , but it's fun, which most food columns tend not to be.
But his account is delivered in the same 'elliptical' , insiders' fashion as the speeches that follow, and so requires as much exegesis and commentary as anything else in the book.
In each case, 'elliptical' writing conveys too little.
This is not an easy task because of Knight's 'elliptical' writing style.
The north face of the building is concave, completing the 'elliptical' pattern that begins in the courtyard.
The construction ‘the shiraz impresses’ seems to be 'elliptical' , with an implied object complement that is not expressed, rather than being a genuinely intransitive verb.
Throughout time, there has been a continual change in the eccentricity of the 'elliptical' orbit.
They are often 'elliptical' in shape, but sometimes possess hexagonal outlines.
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