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    [Adjective]  | "el*lip*ti*cal" | \ i-ˈlip-ti-kəl \


    1: of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse

    2: of, relating to, or marked by ellipsis or an ellipsis

    3: of, relating to, or marked by extreme economy of speech or writing


    Origin: 1656 ;

     Greek elleiptikos defective, marked by ellipsis, from elleipein;

    [Noun]  | "elliptical" 


    1: elliptical galaxy

    2: elliptical trainer


    Origin: 1936 ;

    [Noun]  | "elliptical galaxy" 


    1: a galaxy that has a generally elliptical shape and that has no apparent internal structure or spiral arms —called also elliptical


    Origin: 1948 ;

    [Noun]  | "elliptical trainer" 


    1: a stationary exercise device on which the user stands on two small rimmed platforms and moves them forward and back in an approximately elliptical path —called also elliptical machine


    Origin: 1997 ;

    [Adjective]  | "elliptical" 


    1: having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning;


      * e.g., " ... the poet's elliptical style is such that the reader often senses that an allusion is being made—but to what exactly? "





    2: having the shape of an egg;


      * e.g., " ... the villa's marble pool is surrounded by an elliptic arrangement of ancient Greek statuary "





    3: marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning;


      * e.g., " ... his elliptical replies can seem rude to some people, but that's just his way "



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     [ "elliptical" ]

    1: A sex move whereby a man is having sex with a woman lying on her back while holding her legs in the air and pumping back and forth as if on a elliptical machine in the gym.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, I skipped the gym and just rocked the elliptical with my bitch instead.  

     [ "elliptical" ]

    1: A sex position in which the woman's back faces the mans chest, she stands on his feet, and while he is inside her he runs. Not only are they both exercising they are fucking.

      * e.g.,  ... Last night me and your mom tried the elliptical for 2K 

     [ "ellipticated" ]

    1: The verb (in the past tense) that describes the action of using an elliptical machine. This is more convenient and quicker than saying "I used the elliptical machine".

      * e.g.,  ... Milton: How was your workout? 

     [ "Elliptical Trigonometry" ]

    1: The Elliptical Trigonometry is an original study introduced by Claude Ziad Bayeh in 2004 and it is published by WSEAS Journal transaction on Mathematics. It is the general case of the traditional trigonometry. The concept of the Elliptical Trigonometry is completely different from the traditional trigonometry in which the study of angles is not the relation between sides of a right triangle that describes a circle as the previous one, but the idea here is to use the relation between angles and sides of an ellipse form with the internal and external circles formed by the intersection of the ellipse form and the positive parts of x’ox and y’oy axis in the Euclidian 2D space and their projections. This new concept of relations opened a huge gate in the mathematical domain and it can resolve many complicated problems that are difficult or almost impossible to solve with the traditional trigonometry. The main advantage of this new trigonometry is that it can describe a huge number of multi form periodic signals by varying 2 parameters which are not possible with the traditional trigonometry. It has huge applications such as Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Signal Processing and all topics related to the trigonometry.

      * e.g.,  ... The Elliptical Trigonometry contains 32 principle functions, the main important functions are Ejes (Elliptic Jes) which is the general case of cosine (traditional trigonometry) and Emar (Elliptic Mar) which is the general case of sine (traditional trigonometry). Important signals obtained using the function "Ejes": Impulse train with positive and negative part, elliptic deflated, quasi-triangular, sinusoidal, elliptical swollen, square signal, rectangular signal, impulse train (positive part only), rectified elliptic deflated, saw signal, rectified elliptical swollen, continuous signal… 

     [ "Elliptical potato" ]

    1: Person who watches television while working out at home on an elliptical trainer, on the base of a rating system in which tv shows get labeled as "worth watching from the couch" or "can totally be seen during exercise". The tv shows belonging to this last category are watched just to keep track of the story while waiting for the occasional good episode that justifies remaining attached to a series that outrunned it's original concept, or for that one-per-episode cool computer graphic effect. They can be followed just fine by listening and looking at the screen every 5 seconds or so. In the case of movies, they usually are cheap B movies often downloaded from the internet or rented by mistake. The key concept of this activity is multitasking, originating from the fact that:

      * e.g.,  ... Tim: John, long time no see! Did you lose weight? John: I really needed to free some space on my TiVo, so i elliptical potato'ed my way through the last season of Prison break and Heroes. 


     [ "Elliptical potato" ]

    2: a) one has not enough couch-time to watch tv from sitting positions

      * e.g.,  ... -- 


     [ "Elliptical potato" ]

    3: b) one lacks the determination to stay put and watch a now boring show just to see how it ends

      * e.g.,  ... Michael: Well, time to go, i need to burn some fat. 


     [ "Elliptical potato" ]

    4: c) one wants something to distract him from the pains of fat-burning. See also: treadmill potato, stationary bike potato.

      * e.g.,  ... Ryan: The office is on tonight, are you gonna watch it while you exercise? 

     [ "elliptical illusion" ]

    1: The outward appearance of exercise by someone using a certain piece of gym equipment while, in reality, that person has failed to achieve more than a resting heart rate because of a preoccupation with talking on the telephone, sending text messages, or reading.

      * e.g.,  ... Mary's hour-long workout on that machine in the gym was just an elliptical illusion; she talked on the phone the whole time and didn't break a sweat. 

     [ "elliptical orbit" ]

    1: The most badass way to orbit because it is the way all planets orbit!!!!

      * e.g.,  ... What is the planets elliptical orbit? 

     [ "flipped elliptic" ]

    1: The flipped elliptic is the name of the coolest skateboarding trick known to man, except it isn't known to man. This is a super cool name for a super cool nonexistent trick.

      * e.g.,  ... Bro 1: "Bro, I just landed the flipped elliptic on my skateboard yesterday!" 

     [ "elliptical track star" ]

    1: The person at the gym who can run forever on an elliptical, but loses balance just walking by a treadmill.

      * e.g.,  ... Ben is an elliptical track star, he can't even walk by a treadmill without losing his balance and falling over. 

     [ "ellipticaling" ]

    1: The act of using the elliptical machine at the gym.

      * e.g.,  ... At the gym she went running, swimming, spinning, and ellipticaling. 

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