The Ellipse, sometimes referred to as President's Park South, is a 52-acre (21 ha) park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue...
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mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points...
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Look up ellipse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In mathematics, an ellipse is a geometrical figure. Ellipse may also refer to: MacAdam ellipse, an area...
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Look up ellipses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ellipses is the plural form of two different English words: Ellipse, a type of conic section in geometry...
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the n-ellipse is a generalization of the ellipse allowing more than two foci. n-ellipses go by numerous other names, including multifocal ellipse, polyellipse...
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Circumference (section Ellipse)
geometry, the circumference (from Latin circumferens, meaning "carrying around") is the perimeter of a circle or ellipse. The circumference is the arc length...
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In geometry, the Steiner ellipse of a triangle, also called the Steiner circumellipse to distinguish it from the Steiner inellipse, is the unique circumellipse...
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great ellipse is an ellipse passing through two points on a spheroid and having the same center as that of the spheroid. Equivalently, it is an ellipse on...
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mathematics, a Hartshorne ellipse is an ellipse in the unit ball bounded by the 4-sphere S4 such that the ellipse and the circle given by intersection...
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On the Ellipse is the sixth album by Bardo Pond and first for ATP Recordings. It was released on July 8, 2003. Heather Phares of Allmusic called the album...
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Semi-major and semi-minor axes (section Ellipse)
geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most widely...
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Kepler's laws of planetary motion (redirect from Kepler ellipse)
vary. The three laws state that: The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci. A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps...
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In the study of color vision, a MacAdam ellipse is roughly a region on a chromaticity diagram which contains all colors which are indistinguishable, to...
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Ellipse is the third studio album from British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap. After returning from a round the world writing trip, Heap completed the...
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The eccentricity of a circle is 0. The eccentricity of an ellipse which is not a circle is between 0 and 1. The eccentricity of a parabola is 1. The eccentricity...
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The circle–ellipse problem in software development (sometimes called the square–rectangle problem) illustrates several pitfalls which can arise when using...
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Conic section (section In the real projective plane)
intersecting a plane. The three types of conic section are the hyperbola, the parabola, and the ellipse; the circle is a special case of the ellipse, though it was...
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Spheroid (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. A spheroid has circular symmetry. If the ellipse...
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ellipse is any chord passing through the centre of the ellipse. For example, conjugate diameters have the property that a tangent line to the ellipse...
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Superellipse (redirect from Super Ellipse)
the ellipse, retaining the geometric features of semi-major axis and semi-minor axis, and symmetry about them, but a different overall shape. In the Cartesian...
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Ellipsanime (redirect from Le Studio Ellipse)
Ellipsanime Productions (formerly known as Le Studio Ellipse and Ellipse Programme) is a French animation studio that produces television programs. It...
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cross section is either an ellipse, or is empty, or is reduced to a single point (this explains the name, meaning "ellipse-like"). It is bounded, which...
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Elliptical polarization (redirect from Polarization ellipse)
elliptical polarization is the polarization of electromagnetic radiation such that the tip of the electric field vector describes an ellipse in any fixed plane...
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Confocal conic sections (redirect from Confocal ellipse)
have the same foci. Because ellipses and hyperbolas have two foci, there are confocal ellipses, confocal hyperbolas and confocal mixtures of ellipses and...
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Ellipsoidal dome (redirect from Ellipse dome)
an ellipse around the long axis of the ellipse; an oblate ellipsoidal dome is derived by rotating an ellipse around the short axis of the ellipse. Of...
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(proof: see below), The orthoptic of an ellipse x 2 a 2 + y 2 b 2 = 1 {\displaystyle {\tfrac {x^{2}}{a^{2}}}+{\tfrac {y^{2}}{b^{2}}}=1} is the director circle...
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The Ellipse 360 (Chinese: 天境360; pinyin: Tiānjìng 360) is a residential skyscraper located in Tamsui District, New Taipei, Taiwan. Construction began...
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Finding Ellipses: What Blaschke Products, Poncelet’s Theorem, and the Numerical Range Know about Each Other is a mathematics book on "some surprising...
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Landing footprint (redirect from Landing ellipse)
called a landing ellipse, is the area of uncertainty of a spacecraft's landing zone on an astronomical body. After atmospheric entry, the landing point of...
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Flattening is a measure of the compression of a circle or sphere along a diameter to form an ellipse or an ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) respectively...
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