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Meaning
noun a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
originFrom French ellipse. Learned borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis). Doublet of ellipsis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0