different between oblong vs elliptical
oblong
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
oblong (comparative more oblong, superlative most oblong)
- Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
- Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal
Derived terms
- suboblong
Translations
Noun
oblong (plural oblongs)
- Something with an oblong shape.
- A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.
Translations
Verb
oblong (third-person singular simple present oblongs, present participle oblonging, simple past and past participle oblonged)
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Related terms
- oblate
- obloid
See also
- prolate
- rectangle
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /o?bl??k/
- (Central) IPA(key): /u?bl??/
Adjective
oblong (feminine oblonga, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)
- oblong
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.bl??/
Adjective
oblong (feminine singular oblongue, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)
- oblong
Further reading
- “oblong” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French oblong, from Latin oblongus.
Adjective
oblong m or n (feminine singular oblong?, masculine plural oblongi, feminine and neuter plural oblonge)
- oblong
Declension
oblong From the web:
elliptical
English
Etymology
elliptic +? -al, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (elleiptikós), from ??????? (elleíp?, “I leave out, omit”). Surface analysis ellipse +? -ical.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??l?p.t?k.?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /??l?p.t?.k?l/, /??l?p.t?.k?l/
Adjective
elliptical (comparative more elliptical, superlative most elliptical)
- In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval.
- 1876, Edward Roth (translator), All Around the Moon, Chapter XIX,
- 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.
- 1876, Edward Roth (translator), All Around the Moon, Chapter XIX,
- 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. -- Edmund Wilson
- (of speech) Concise, condensed.
- 1903, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Robert Browning, Chapter VI,
- 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.
- early XX c., The Making of a New Yorker, by O. Henry
- He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.
- 1903, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Robert Browning, Chapter VI,
- (mathematics, rare) Elliptic.
Usage notes
- In botanical usage, elliptic(al) refers only to the general shape of the object (usually a leaf), independently of its apex or margin (and sometimes the base), so that an "elliptic leaf" may very well be pointed at both ends. A three-dimensional elliptical object is ellipsoid, while an object that is not a perfectly stretched circle is ovoid or obovoid.
Synonyms
- elliptic
Translations
Noun
elliptical (plural ellipticals)
- (astronomy) An elliptical galaxy.
- An elliptical trainer.
Translations
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