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Encyclopedia > Ellipse (disambiguation)

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The ellipse and some of its mathematical properties. ... Presidents Park, located in Washington, D.C., includes the White House, a visitor center, Lafayette Square, and the Ellipse. ... Presidents Park, located in Washington, D.C., includes the White House, a visitor center, Lafayette Square, and the Ellipse. ... Ellipse Programmé (also known as Le Studio Ellipse, or simply Ellipse), is a French company that produces animated television programs. ... The Mini Ellipse is a miniature radio controlled model sailplane designed by professional R/C pilot Jaro Muller and distributed by Euromodell. ... In the study of the perception of color, a MacAdam ellipse is the region on a chromaticity diagram which contains all colors which are indistinguishable, to the average human eye, from the color at the center of the ellipse. ... The superellipse for n = 4, a = b = 1 approximates a chamfered square. ...

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Britain.tv Wikipedia - Ellipse (1530 words)
In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek for absence) is the locus of points on a plane where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant.
An ellipse is a type of conic section: if a conical surface is cut with a plane which does not intersect the cone's base, the intersection of the cone and plane is an ellipse.
An ellipse centered at the origin of an x-y coordinate system with its major axis along the x-axis is defined by the equation of the elliptical object.
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