Elliptical

Adjective

 * 1) In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.
 * 2) * 1876, Edward Roth (translator), All Around the Moon, Chapter XIX,
 * 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.
 * Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
 * If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us. -- Edmund Wilson
 * 1)  Concise, condensed.
 * 2) * 1903, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Robert Browning, Chapter VI,
 * 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.

Noun

 * 1) An elliptical galaxy
 * 2) An elliptical trainer

Thesaurus
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bell-like, bell-shaped, bobbed, brief, brusque, campaniform, campanular, campanulate, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, ellipsoid, elliptic, elongated, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, oblong, oblongated, oblongitudinal, parabolic, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, rectangular, reserved, saucer-shaped, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

Alternative forms

 * elliptic

Etymology
From elliptic: + -al:.

Adjective

 * Bengali: উপবৃত্তাকার
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 * Polish: eliptyczny
 * Russian: эллиптический
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 * Polish: eliptyczny
 * Russian: эллиптический