Usually means: Pertaining to ellipse; curved, oval.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. elliptic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elliptic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elliptic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elliptic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elliptic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elliptic, elliptic: Wordnik
  7. elliptic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Elliptic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. elliptic: Rhymezone
  10. Elliptic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. elliptic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. elliptic: Free Dictionary
  13. elliptic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. elliptic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  15. elliptic: Dictionary.com
  16. Elliptic (company): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. elliptic: Wiktionary
  18. Elliptic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  19. Elliptic: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elliptic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. elliptic: Rhododendron Glossary
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Elliptic: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

(Note: See elliptics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elliptic)

adjective:  (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
adjective:  (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
adjective:  (botany, of leaves) Oval, with a short or no point.
adjective:  (linguistics) Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
noun:  An elliptical function, equation, path, etc.

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