What's the difference between ellipsis and elliptical?

Ellipsis


Definition:

  • (n.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
  • (n.) An ellipse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several features of tumor cell nuclei were measured, including area, surface, major and minor axis of best fitting ellipsis and extinction (DNA content).
  • (2) During the fetal period the organs under study take the shape of the ellipsis since the width-thickness dimensions dominate over the length dimensions.
  • (3) • Rachel Warren, UEA, to Rita Yu, UEA, 19 August 2008 (email 310) This is a clear illustration of the danger of people posting excerpts online using ellipsis (...).
  • (4) Dependent variables included lexicalization versus ellipsis, pronominalization, and definite and indefinite article use.
  • (5) Subject ellipsis was particularly strong, as it is in normal Hungarian.
  • (6) The direction of the main axis to the best fitting ellipsis according to the nuclear size was used for construction of the Johnson-Mehl diagrams.
  • (7) In the measurement model, a microvessel intersection figure is considered as an ellipsis.
  • (8) The number of cohesive ties increased with both age and MLU, due to increased pronominal reference and conjunctions (while clausal and verbal ellipsis decreased).

Elliptical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
  • (a.) Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
  • (2) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
  • (3) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
  • (4) Similar aftereffects were obtained whether the area of the test stimulus was fixed or varied randomly from trial to trial, and whether the test stimulus was rectangular or elliptical.
  • (5) Raji consistently exhibited the highest and SU-AMB-1 the lowest polymerase activity and ellipticity.
  • (6) As univariate predictors, the variance of nuclear roundness, the mean of ellipticity, the Gleason score, age, and clinical stage were statistically significant predictors of disease progression when analyzed with Kaplan-Meier survival curves.
  • (7) The thermodynamics of this self-association have been evaluated by studying the temperature- and concentration-dependence of the mean residue ellipticity at 220 nm.
  • (8) In addition, it appears that the population of Elschnig type III nerve heads includes higher elliptical values than that for the Elschnig type II nerve heads.
  • (9) Protein unfolding was detected by ellipticity changes at 222 nm with increasing concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl).
  • (10) Ontogenetic data on developmental stages I-IV of 3678 melanosomes based on geometric considerations (length, width, shape, and area) showed that MSH did not induce a complete transformation from spherical phaeomelanosomes to elliptical eumelanosomes.
  • (11) On 62 of 100 pediatric bladder sonograms a small, elliptical, hypoechoic structure was observed on the middle of the anterosuperior surface of the urinary bladder.
  • (12) The spatial extension of these megalospermatocyte populations is spherical to elliptical, some of them look like a section of a spiral around the longitudinal axis of the seminiferous tubule.
  • (13) In the case of the inclined model and a vertical beam the diffusion field was elliptical, with a still more diffuse transition to the fields above and below than in the case of the vertical model and a horizontal beam.
  • (14) CD measurements gave equal [theta] values for lysozyme and derivative at the two negative ellipticity bands at 208 and 220 nm.
  • (15) LH-RH nerve processes terminated mainly in the infurdibular radix within an elliptical zone surrounding the bases of the infundibular recessus.
  • (16) Similar, but far smaller, effects were seen in a region with an elliptical cross-section and when the flow was made pulsatile.
  • (17) The correlation showed the advantages of planning using optimal schemes in volumes with an elliptical and irregular section by the criteria of homogeneity of target contour irradiation, the lessening of radiation exposure beyond the target and an increase in the absolute value of minimum dose rate at the border of an irradiated volume.
  • (18) There was no positive ellipticity, and the spectrum was not characteristic of collagen.
  • (19) (b) Chemical input is received from unidentified presynaptic neurons containing either round or elliptical vesicles.
  • (20) The kinetics of regain of the native ellipticity in the far- and near-UV spectra have been investigated during the refolding at pH 7.8 and 20 degrees C of guanidine-unfolded, nonreduced hen egg white lysozyme.