Ellipticity

AFAIU the ellipticity of an egg is due to the pressures from the surrounding egg canal in which it is transported in during its assembly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He granted that the proposition connected mathematically the inverse square law to the ellipticity of the course of the planets. ❋ Mancosu, Paolo (2008)

(Sometimes circularity is called or confused with ellipticity, but I prefer the former.) ❋ Sean (2007)

This week, Nathalie Kellens (KULeuven) and Patrick Degryse (Physico-Chemical Geology, KULeuven) classified debris from smithing activities retrieved from the urban and territorial surveys and from the excavations within the city center according to weight, volume, density, mineralogy, chemistry, ellipticity, flatness, position in the smithing hearth and profile of the cakes. ❋ Unknown (2003)

With powers 202 and 3.0, two round, bright spots were perceived, not quite crossing the center but a little nearer to the eastern side of the planet, the position angle of a line passing through their centers being about 20º and 200 -- ellipticity of Uranus seemed obvious, the major axis lying parallel to the line of the spots. ❋ Various (N/A)

Further, Descartes was unable to give, or explain the ellipticity of the orbits of planets, and had to assume that there were elliptic vortices. ❋ William George Hooper (N/A)

Croll on the reverse of seasons every 10,500 years during certain periods of high ellipticity of the earth's orbit. ❋ Various (N/A)

The ellipticity of the orbit, according to this view, was caused by the planet oscillating about a mean position, -- sinking first into the dense ether, -- then, on account of superior buoyancy, rising into too light a medium. ❋ T. Bassnett (N/A)

They were commenced by Tycho Brahé, and completed by Kepler, who made his calculations from Tycho's observations, and based them upon his own great discovery of the ellipticity of the orbits of the planets. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

This necessitated the retention of cycles and epicycles, which gave rise to much confusion; nor was it until Kepler made his great discovery of the ellipticity of the planetary orbits that they were eliminated from the system. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

His first work, the "Mysterium Cosmographicum," is the record of a splendid blunder that cost him five years 'toil, and he spent ten years of fruitless and baffled effort in the deduction of the laws of areas and orbital ellipticity. ❋ Various (N/A)

The orbits of Mercury and Mars have an appearance of ellipticity because the sun does not occupy the central point in the diagram. ❋ Mark Wicks (N/A)

If this result were correct, Leverrier would have no need of looking for intermercurial planets to account for the motion of the perihelion of Mercury; he would find a sufficient cause in the ellipticity of the sun. ❋ Various (N/A)

H. Foster's pendulum-experiments, deducing from them an ellipticity for the earth of 1/289 (_Memoirs R.Astr. Soc. _ vii.); corrected for the length of the seconds-pendulum by introducing a neglected element of reduction; and was entrusted, in 1843, with the reconstruction of the standards of length. ❋ Various (N/A)

At this time the law of gravitation was unknown, and, although the ellipticity of the orbits of the planets had been discovered by Kepler, the nature of the motive force which guided and retained them in their paths still remained a mystery. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

This law, deduced, was the immediate path to the law of orbital ellipticity. ❋ Various (N/A)

So many took part in these singular experiments, which assumed rather the appearance of outdoor sports than of scientific demonstrations, that in a short time we had provided the asteroid with a very large number of little moons, or satellites, of gold, which revolved around it in orbits of various degrees of ellipticity, taking, on the average, about three-quarters of an hour to complete a circuit. ❋ Garrett Putnam Serviss (N/A)

In singular confirmation of this is Mr. Lassell's observation of 1862, Jan. 29, where he says: "I received an impression which I am unable to render certain of an equatorial dark belt, and of an ellipticity of form." ❋ Various (N/A)

The argument of simplicity was greatly strengthened by Kepler when he discovered the ellipticity of planetary orbits. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

[Milton]: How was your [workout]? Joe: It was radical! I ellipticated for [30 minutes]. ❋ Word Doctor (2009)

Dude, I [skipped] the gym and just [rocked] the elliptical with [my bitch] instead. ❋ Jessica Pelliptical (2009)

Last night [me and your mom] [tried] the elliptical for [2K] ❋ Iswearimnotcrazy (2011)

The Elliptical [Trigonometry] contains 32 principle functions, the main important functions are Ejes (Elliptic Jes) which is the general case of cosine (traditional [trigonometry]) and [Emar] (Elliptic Mar) which is the general case of sine (traditional trigonometry). Important signals obtained using the function "Ejes": Impulse train with positive and negative part, elliptic deflated, quasi-triangular, [sinusoidal], elliptical swollen, square signal, rectangular signal, impulse train (positive part only), rectified elliptic deflated, saw signal, rectified elliptical swollen, continuous signal… ❋ Elliptical Trigonometry. (2013)

Tim: John, long time no see! Did you lose weight? John: I really needed to free some space on my TiVo, so i [elliptical] potato'ed my way through the last season of Prison break and Heroes. -- Michael: Well, time to go, i need to burn some fat. Ryan: The office is on tonight, are you gonna watch it while you exercise? Michael: Hey, i might be an [elliptical potato], but The office will *always* get some [couch time] from me. ❋ Keichix (2009)

[Mary's] hour-long workout on that machine in the gym was just an elliptical illusion; she talked on the phone the [whole time] and didn't [break a sweat]. ❋ Time Enough At Last (2010)

[What is] the planets elliptical orbit? ❋ DA Best At Definitioning (2018)

Bro 1: "Bro, I just [landed] the flipped elliptic on my [skateboard] yesterday!" Bro 2: "Oh yeah? What did [it it] look like?" Bro 1: "I don't know but I totally landed it!" ❋ Petey Did It (2011)

Ben is an elliptical track star, he can't even [walk by] a [treadmill] without losing his [balance] and falling over. ❋ AllTheNamesAreTaken46220 (2008)

At [the gym] she went running, [swimming], [spinning], and ellipticaling. ❋ Johnny Vee (2007)