Craig Hunter, director of a medical supply firm, reported a huge elliptical saucer flying at a low altitude in Pennsylvania.
One of the disks, a huge elliptical craft, was tracked by scientists with precision instruments at five miles per second.
The semi-elliptical shape of the arches the variation of span, the slight curvature of the roadway, and the simple yet bold architectural details, combine to make it a singularly beautiful bridge.
The top boom of each girder is an elliptical wrought iron tube 17 ft.
The editor has not assisted the reader through his barbarous text interspersed with Saxon characters and abbreviations, and the difficulties of an obscure and elliptical phraseology in a very antiquated language.
For the calculation of an ellipsoid with three unequal axes see Comparison of Standards, preface; and for non-elliptical meridians, Principal Triangulation, p.
More recent work points to an ellipticalequatorial section, thus making the earth pear-shaped.
The Earth revolves about the Sun in an elliptical orbit having the Sun at one focus.
The hair of the white man is oval; that of the Choctaw, and some other American Indians, is cylindrical; that of the negro is eccentrically elliptical or flat.
The eccentrically elliptical pierces the epidermis at right angles, and lies perpendicularly in the dermis.
The skull found lying in the bottom of the canoe was of the oval or elliptical (Dolicho cephalic) type, characteristic of the natives of western or southern Europe.
In most houses of this period, as in this, the elliptical arch of the fanlight is echoed elsewhere in the house.
The upper hall has an elliptical arched window and a hand-carved balustrade.
On the left are the double drawing-rooms and showing an elliptical arch that has a frieze motif with dentation ornamentation and reeded pilasters.
I embraced his elliptical legs with almost pagan idolatry, and considered myself as a man on the high-road to a very handsome fortune.
Each is composed of two oval or elliptical chambers next to one another, and communicating by a narrow passage; the farther chamber contains also a semicircular apse.
The two longer sides bulge slightly towards the middle, thus describing two opposite elliptical curves--a peculiarity which gives to the plan of the edifice something of the appearance of [Illustration: Fig.
That the planets move, not in circular, but in elliptical orbits, of which the sun occupies a focus.
Eggs: 2 laid upon the bare ground, creamy white with a faint pinkish tinge, oval to blunt elliptical oval in shape.
A similar occurrence takes place in the flowers of maples (Acer), which sometimes show an increased number of parts in their floral whorls and an elliptical outline.
Cardamine pratensis: "On the lower part of the corymb were several seed vessels on pedicels changed from their usual linear to an ovate elliptical figure, so as to resemble a silicula.
A broad-leaved form, with elliptical leaves, but to be known by their acuminated base, and by the deep unequal serratures, though almost too nearly allied to Scrophularia Marylandica.
Within the cavities of these flasks are formed the very numerous spindle-shaped spore cells, each containing, when ripe, eight colorless elliptical spores.
The fungus appears in the form of protuberances with elliptical bases that burst the bark and rise rather thickly from the affected portions of the branch.
The elliptical dotted line shows the amount to be removed; the vertical one, the position of the preliminary incision with the Beer's knife.
When the whole breast is to be removed, two incisions, inclosing an elliptical portion of skin along with the nipple, must be made in the direction of the fibres of the pectoralis muscle.
If they have once become adherent, they must be dissected out in the usual manner, after the adherent portion of skin has been defined by elliptical incisions.
The best direction, when the surgeon has his choice, that these incisions can take, is that of radii from the nipple, bisecting the flaps made by the original elliptical incision.
The object of it is to remove an elliptical portion of the front of the staphyloma, or the whole staphyloma, when it is possible, and at the same time to prevent as far as possible the escape of the vitreous.
If the tumour is large and of old standing it may be requisite to cut out an elliptical or circular portion of its conjunctival wall.
In cases where the walls of the cavity are enormously thickened, or even, as sometimes happens, almost bony in consistence, an elliptical portion may be removed with advantage.
In mild cases the excision of an elliptical portion of conjunctiva may suffice, the edges must not be left to contract, but should be brought carefully together.
To remove the included elliptical portion, Mr. Critchett pierces the sclerotic with a Beer's knife, just in front of the tendinous insertion of the external rectus.
An egg of the Malayan brahminy kite taken in Borneo is of an elongated elliptical form and plain white.
The eggs of the wandering tree duck in the collection are almost elliptical in shape, one end being very slightly compressed.
The orbits of the asteroids are more elliptical and more highly inclined to one another than are the orbits of the planets, but on the average they are neither very elliptical nor very highly inclined to the planetary orbits.
The asteroids have orbits that are more flattened or ellipticaland these orbits are in some instances highly inclined to the planetary orbits.
The planetoids with their interlacing and in some instances highly inclined and elliptical orbits were then undiscovered.
Leaves elliptical to obovate; involucre split down one side =Spurge, Euphorbia humistrata.
About 30 species of Potamogeton occur in Michigan, among which the most conspicuous is Potamogeton natans, with elliptical floating leaves.
The door entrance in the south front has framing sidelights and an elliptical fanlight with wood tracery.
Located within the pediment at both houses is anelliptical ventilator.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elliptical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: elliptic; elliptical; elongated; oblong; oval; rectangular
