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Crossword-Solution: ELLIPSE 7 letters, 74 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Ellipse n. An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve,
which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique
section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of
the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor
axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.
Ellipse n. Omission. See Ellipsis.
Ellipse n. The elliptical orbit of a planet.

We have 74 clues for the answer “ELLIPSE”

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Earth's orbit around the sun, e.g. 1 answer
Any of a Toyota logo threesome 1 answer
Area between the National Mall and The White House (with "The") 1 answer
Area south of the White House, with "the" 1 answer
Basic orbital path 1 answer
Certain conic section 1 answer
Orbital circuit shape 1 answer
Orbit of a satellite. 1 answer
Circle's relative 1 answer
Circle, to geometricians 1 answer
Closed plane curve. 1 answer
Each planet's orbit is one 1 answer
Orbital curve 1 answer
Earth's orbit around the sun, for example 1 answer
Elongated O 1 answer
Orbit of a planet, e.g. 1 answer
Figure in Kepler's first law 1 answer
Figure like flattened circle 1 answer
Figure with a major and minor axis 1 answer
Figure with two foci 1 answer
National Christmas Tree site 1 answer
Flattened-out circle 1 answer
It's a flat circle (well, flattish) 1 answer
Orbital figure 1 answer
oval shape 1 answer
Tennis bracelet shape 1 answer
Shape with two foci 1 answer
Shape of the orbit of a planet. 1 answer
Shape of a planet's orbit 1 answer
Shape formed by a plane intersecting a cone at an angle to the cone's axis 1 answer
Satellite's trace 1 answer
Samsung logo's blue background 1 answer
Regular oval shape 1 answer
Planet's orbit 1 answer
Oval's shape 1 answer
Oval shape in math 1 answer
Oval in math 1 answer
Orbital track 1 answer
Planet's path 2 answers
Racetrack shape 2 answers
Ovoid. 2 answers
Oval figure. 2 answers
Stretched circle 2 answers
Orbital shape 2 answers
Elongated circle 2 answers
Flattened circle. 2 answers
Circle relative 2 answers
Geometrical shape 2 answers
Long O? 2 answers
Squashed circle 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ELLIPSE (5)

Spherical aberration is overcome by proper care in the formation of the lens: “It can be shown upon mathematical data that a lens similar to that given in the following diagram—one surface of which is a section of an ellipse, and the other of a circle struck from the furthest of the two foci of that ellipse—produces no aberration.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
The two axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the transverse axis and the conjugate axis.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
But perhaps the most remarkable feature of his attire consisted of a headdress of ostrich-feathers, which was fixed on the chin, and passed in front of the ears to the forehead, and, being shaped like an ellipse, completely framed the face, so that the diabolical countenance appeared to project from a sort of feather fire-screen.
Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard 1996
According to the report of the brothers Robert, they succeeded in completing an ellipse and then travelled further in the direction of the wind without using the oars or steering arrangements.
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future George Whale 1996
The actual meteoric train is known to travel in an elongated ellipse, the far end of which lies near the confines of the solar system, while at a point near the hither end the earth's orbit runs slantingly athwart it, forming, as it were, a level crossing common to the two orbits, the earth taking some five or six hours in transit.
The Dominion of the Air J. M. Bacon 1997

Quotes with ELLIPSE (3)

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.
Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game
Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.
Johannes Kepler
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 84 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).