Elliptical: Definition and part of speech

Elliptical

  1. a. Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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