Elliptical vs Trapezoid - What's the difference?
elliptical | trapezoid |
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.
(geometry, US) A (convex) quadrilateral with two (non-adjacent) parallel sides.
(geometry, British) A convex quadrilateral with no sides parallel and no equal sides.
(anatomy) The trapezoid bone of the wrist.
As nouns the difference between elliptical and trapezoid
is that elliptical is an elliptical galaxy while trapezoid is a (convex) quadrilateral with two (non-adjacent) parallel sides.As an adjective elliptical
is in a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.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.
