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Roughly midway along the mall, across an additional grassy area called the Ellipse, is the [[White House]], which, although a large residence, surprises many

...n and features of seven different neuron types. Each has a [[soma]] (solid ellipse), [[dendrite]]s (thick lines) and axon(s) (thin lines). [[Commissural]] axo

...proportional to distance. The heavy body is in one of the two foci of the ellipse. However, the Earth is not a point particle. In 1685 Newton proved that al

This is the measure of how much the orbit shape deviates from a circle to an ellipse. The eccentricity of the Earth's orbit is currently about 0.0167 . A circul

...etric cell division proceeds, producing a large mother cell and a smaller, ellipse-shaped spore. The mother cell first engulfs the spore, and, following a se

...als of purely algebraic functions. In particular, the [[arc length]]s of [[ellipse]]s and of the [[lemniscate]], which are curves defined by algebraic equatio

Likewise, mathematicians bridge the wide gap between useful notions (say, "ellipse" or "normal distribution") and the undefined primitives by a large and comp

...ion. Each object orbits along an ellipse with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. The closer an object is to the Sun the faster it moves. The orbits of th

...ool, and at the age of 15 invented, by analogy with the construction of an ellipse, a way of drawing [[oval]]s using a piece of string. This work was publishe

...ool, and at the age of 15 invented, by analogy with the construction of an ellipse, a way of drawing [[oval]]s using a piece of string. This work was publishe

...name suggests, an elliptical galaxy has the cross-sectional shape of an [[ellipse]]. The stars move along [[randomness|random]] orbits with no preferred dire

...distance varies between about 55 and 100 million km due to the planets' [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spds.nasa.gov/planetary/

...pletes an orbit every 224.7 days. Although all [[planetary orbit]]s are [[ellipse|elliptical]], Venus' is the closest to [[circle|circular]], with an [[eccen