elliptical

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈlɪp.tɪk.əl/    美 /ɪˈlɪp.tɪ.kəl/|/əˈlɪp.tɪ.kəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An elliptical galaxy.
  2. An elliptical trainer.
形容词 adj.
  1. In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval.
    — Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.
  2. Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
    — If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us.
  3. Concise, condensed.
    — Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
  4. Elliptic. rare

词形变化

more elliptical comparative most elliptical superlative ellipticals plural

词汇关系

近义词
elliptic
衍生词
elliptically ellipticalness hyperelliptical nanoelliptical nonelliptical overelliptical quasielliptical semi-elliptical semielliptical subelliptical superelliptical unelliptical

词源

词源 1
From elliptic + -al, from Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός (elleiptikós), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “I leave out, omit”).
词源 2
From elliptic + -al, from Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός (elleiptikós), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “I leave out, omit”).
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