Elliptical vs Etherial - What's the difference?
elliptical | etherial |
In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.
* 1876 , Edward Roth (translator), ,
Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
(of speech) Concise, condensed.
* 1903 , ,
* early XX c. , , by O. Henry
(mathematics, rare)
Being flat and in the shape of a twice-symmetrical ellipse; oval.
* Herman Melville, Of Rama
As adjectives the difference between elliptical and etherial
is that elliptical is in a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval while etherial is .As a noun elliptical
is (astronomy) an elliptical galaxy.elliptical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical ; science proves that it must be so.
- If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us. --
- Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
- He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.
Synonyms
* ellipticUsage notes
* In botanical usage, elliptic(al) refers only to the general shape of the object (usually a leaf), independently of its apex or margin (and sometimes the base), so that an "elliptic leaf" may very well be pointed at both ends. A three-dimensional elliptical object is ellipsoid, while an object that is not a perfectly stretched circle is ovoid or obovoid.etherial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The innocent if lawless elf, / Etherial in virginity, / Retains the consciousness of self.