Ellipses [noun]

In Figures 76 and 77 are a series of ellipses marked with pins and a piece of twine, as already described.

Ellipses match the original except in poetry quotations where a short line represents an ellipses.

There is a tendency to confine the asterisk to such cases, and to use the full stop for shorter ellipses.

Dave Cowan ceased to draw angled designs on his pad; he now drew circles, ovals, ellipses, things fluent with curves.

Long stretches of periods have been normalized to regular ellipses.

Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and ellipses in the original have been preserved.

That the planetary orbits are not circular, but elliptical, the sun occupying one focus of the ellipses.

As described in the end notes, ellipses occasionally are used typographically to elide names.

All young parts of stems are continually moving in circles or ellipses.

His first law states that the planets describe ellipses with the sun at a focus of each ellipse.