Definitions
characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
Word origin
From elliptic + -al, from Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός (elleiptikós), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “I leave out, omit”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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