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elliptical
[ ih-lip-ti-kuhl ]
adjective
- pertaining to or having the form of an ellipse.
- pertaining to or marked by grammatical ellipsis.
- (of speech or writing) expressed with extreme or excessive economy; relieved of irrelevant matter:
to converse in elliptical sentences.
- (of a style of speaking or writing) tending to be ambiguous, cryptic, or obscure:
an elliptical prose that is difficult to translate.
noun
- Astronomy. elliptical galaxy.
elliptical
/ 瑟藞濒瑟辫迟瑟办蓹濒 /
adjective
- relating to or having the shape of an ellipse
- relating to or resulting from ellipsis
- of speech, literary style, etc
- very condensed or concise, often so as to be obscure or ambiguous
- circumlocutory or long-winded
Usage
Derived Forms
- 别濒藞濒颈辫迟颈肠补濒苍别蝉蝉, noun
- 别濒藞濒颈辫迟颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 别濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈路肠补濒路苍别蝉蝉 noun
- 苍辞苍顎卐濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈肠 adjective
- 苍辞苍顎卐濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈路肠补濒 adjective
- 苍辞苍顎卐濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈路肠补濒路ly adverb
- 辞顎卾别谤路别濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈路肠补濒 adjective
- 辞顎卾别谤路别濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈路肠补濒路ly adverb
- 蝉耻产顎卐濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈肠 adjective
- 蝉耻产顎卐濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈路肠补濒 adjective
- 耻苍顎卐濒路濒颈辫顎僼颈路肠补濒 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of elliptical1
Example Sentences
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, it was sparsely populated, with just a few dozen members working out on brand-new, still-gleaming treadmills, bikes and elliptical machines.
We have a little home gym, and I do a 20-minute, brutal, fast-paced blast on the elliptical machine to make sure I get my endorphins up and my cardiovascular system going.
The numerous narrative devices that the film employs 鈥 including an elliptical framing structure, Austin鈥檚 voice-over narration and even an imaginary friend 鈥 are entirely too cute by half.
Blocks and blocks of homes had disappeared, replaced by the rubble of charred lives: A scorched elliptical machine stood alone on one lot.
Told in an elliptical style with novelistic chapters, the story follows Agnes, a literature grad student turned junior professor at a small liberal arts college who is struggling to move forward from a traumatic event.
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