Ellipse (disambiguation)

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In mathematics, an ellipse is a geometrical figure. It may also refer to:

• Ellipse (figure of speech), a rhetorical suppression of words to give an expression more liveliness
• MacAdam ellipse, a chromaticity diagram
• Superellipse, a geometric figure

As a name, it may also be:

• The Ellipse, a 1 km elliptical street in President's Park, just south of the White House
• Ellipse Programmé, a French animation studio
• Elipse, former Yugoslav rock band
• Ellipse (album), album by Imogen Heap
• Explorer Ellipse, an American homebuilt aircraft design
• La société Ellipse, a French aircraft manufacturer

Similar terms

• Ellipsis, a punctuation mark
• Eclipse, an astronomical event
• Elliptic function, a type of complex function
• Elliptic geometry, a type of non-Euclidean geometry.
• Elliptical trainer, a form of exercise equipment