Synonyms of ellipse

ellipse

noun

as in oval

a shape that resembles a flattened circle

The teacher drew an ellipse on the chalkboard that intended to illustrate the moon's orbit around the Earth.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• oval
• egg
• orb
• loop
• spheroid
• sphere
• ball
• globe
• bead
• circle
• globule
• round
• circlet
• ring
• roundel
• ringlet
• clump
• chunk
• cirque
• hunk
• nugget
• gob
• rondure
• wad
• lump

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• square
• block
• rectangle
• cube

Examples of ellipse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At around 125 miles in altitude, mission controllers would adjust the ISS’s trajectory, tweaking the rocket’s burn to reshape the station’s roughly circular orbit into an ellipse, with its closest earthward point, or perigee, perhaps 90 miles above the planet. —Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023

Astronomers continue to take a page from Hubble’s playbook and scrutinize Andromeda, the faint ellipse in the northern sky. —WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023

Comet Borisov arrived from deep space moving at 32 kilometers per second, and its orbit past the Sun looked more like a bent line than a tidy planetary ellipse. —Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020

Meanwhile, the closest point on the ellipse, the perigee, is an average distance of about 226,000 miles from Earth. —Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023