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el·lip·tic

(ĭ-lĭp′tĭk) or el·lip·ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or having the shape of an ellipse.
2. Containing or characterized by ellipsis.
3.
a. Of or relating to extreme economy of oral or written expression.
b. Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.

[New Latin ellīpticus, from Greek elleiptikos, defective, from elleipsis, a falling short, ellipsis; see ellipsis.]

el·lip′ti·cal·ly adv.
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Translations

elliptically

[ɪˈlɪptɪkəlɪ] ADVde manera elíptica
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elliptically

[ɪˈlɪptɪkli] adv (= indirectly) [say, remark] → de manière elliptique
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elliptically

adv
(Math) → elliptisch ; planets move round ellipticallydie Planeten haben eine elliptische Umlaufbahn
(fig) speakandeutungsweise ; writekryptisch (geh)
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Some of that material may seem, to her and to a potential audience, to be too local, too bound up with obscure personalities whose names are only elliptically given, to have an effect beyond her own circles of friends, but the poems are fascinating experiments for all that, yielding rich insights into regional reading habits, rural labor, female friendship, northern Presbyterian culture(s), and the reception of poets such as Ramsay, Pope, Young and Barbauld.
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They allow for a simple assessment of the planes in which a bone is strengthened ([I.sub.x]/[I.sub.y]) and whether the bone is relatively circular or strengthened elliptically in an unspecified plane ([I.sub.max]/[I.sub.min]).
Even those church fathers who might be seen as questioning, albeit elliptically, the severity of punishments related to abortion in the Middle Ages--and some punishments were socially, psychologically and spiritually extreme--are chalked up as textual anomalies.

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