Definizione monolingua

elliptical

elliptical (plural ellipticals)

1. (astronomy) An elliptical galaxy
2. An elliptical trainer

elliptical (comparative more elliptical, superlative most elliptical)

1. In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.
   • 1876, Edward Roth (translator), All Around the Moon, Chapter XIX,

     Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.

2. Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.

   If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us. -- Edmund Wilson

3. (of speech) Concise, condensed.
   • 1903, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Robert Browning, Chapter VI,

     Brownings dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.

4. (mathematics, rare) Alternative form of elliptic.

Definizione dizionario elliptical

	ellittico
	Pertaining to or having the form of an ellipse.

Altri significati:

(mathematics, rare) Alternative form of elliptic.

In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.

(of speech) Concise, condensed.

in shape reminding of an ellipse, oval

Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.

An elliptical trainer

showing ellipsis

(astronomy) An elliptical galaxy