17 example sentences using elliptical.
Elliptical used in a sentence
Elliptical in a sentence as an adjective
Sure, trying to make sense out of elliptical orbits of planets.
The larger comes from the Earth's elliptical orbit around the Sun.
If I enter 45 mins of elliptical into Moves it defaults to like 250 or whatever.
If I spend 45 mins on the elliptical at high resistance, the computer will tell me I burned maybe 700 calories.
Also, they're called elliptic curves, not 'elliptical' curves.
According to Wikipedia, their elliptical landing zone was 20km by 7 km.
As a young seeker in the ’70s, Jobs didn’t just dabble in Zen, appropriating its elliptical aesthetic as a kind of exotic cologne.
Launch vehicles can only place satellites in an elliptical orbit with some degree of inclination from equator.
However, maybe the highly elliptical orbit that this launch is aiming for is slightly more efficient than whatever orbit is assumed for that chart on Wikipedia.
The press releases are a little elliptical about what their solution entails but it sounds like you have to understand what's happening with certain observed impurities in the plasma.
Given what I do know, I think the chances of these programs being legitimate are about the same as the chances that there is between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit.
After a KS transformation a computer can integrate even extremely elliptical orbits or collisional orbits.
So, geostationary satellites are placed in elliptical "geostationary transfer orbits".
Well, if the old format is called the 'hyperbolic' format and the new format is called the 'elliptical' format, then the logic that led us to create /usr/share leads us to create /usr/share/ones_complement/hyperbolic/foocode, /usr/share/ones_complement/elliptical/foocode, /usr/share/new_format/hyperbolic/foocode and /usr/share/new_format/elliptical/foocode.
We are currently using a similar harness on a regular treadmill, but this therapy doesn't help him learn that he needs to raise his feet and move them in a circular motion forward and then set them down again - seeing how the machine handles this using the same idea as an elliptical trainer immediately opened my eyes to the deficiencies in the approach we're using in the modern clinic we're attending.
For example, a good way to circularise an orbit from an elliptical, a small tangential thrust at apogee during each orbit would eventually place the spacecraft in a circular orbit with a radius roughly equal to the apogee distance of the elliptical orbit... or to say it another way, perigee would increase until it equalled apogee...Anyway, the point being that I never would have understood any of this no matter how many times I read 2010, until I wrote that little game.
Proper Noun Examples for Elliptical
Elliptical's can give you a pretty good workout, but good elliptical's are horrendously expensive.
Elliptical definitions
rounded like an egg
See also: egg-shaped elliptic oval oval-shaped ovate oviform ovoid prolate
characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor
See also: elliptic