Lenticular vs Elliptical - What's the difference?
lenticular | elliptical |
Of or pertaining to a lens.
Shaped like a biconvex lens.
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Relating to a lenticular image.
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.
As adjectives the difference between lenticular and elliptical
is that lenticular is of or pertaining to a lens while elliptical is in a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.As nouns the difference between lenticular and elliptical
is that lenticular is a lenticular image while elliptical is (astronomy) an elliptical galaxy.lenticular
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk
Synonyms
* (shaped like a biconvex lens) lentiformelliptical
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.