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Excerpt from The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3: Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge
Elliptic, or elliptical, something belonging to an ellipsis. Thus we meet with elliptical compasses, elliptic conoid, elliptic space, elliptic stairs, &c. The ellip. Tic'space is the area Contained within the curve of the ellipsis, which is to that of a circle described on the transverse axis, as the conjugate diameter is to the transverse axis; or it is a mean proportional between two circles, described on the conjugate and transverse axis.
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