Usually means: Oval; deviating from a circular form.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word elliptical:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. elliptical: Merriam-Webster
  2. elliptical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elliptical: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elliptical: Vocabulary.com
  5. Elliptical, elliptical: Wordnik
  6. elliptical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. elliptical: Wiktionary
  8. elliptical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. elliptical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. elliptical: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. elliptical: Dictionary.com
  12. Elliptical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Elliptical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. elliptical: Rhymezone
  15. Elliptical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. elliptical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. elliptical: FreeDictionary.org
  18. elliptical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. elliptical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. elliptical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. elliptical: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elliptical: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elliptical, elliptical: A Word A Day

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elliptical: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. elliptical: Mussel Glossary
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elliptical: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elliptical: Skydiving Glossary

(Note: See ellipticaling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval.
adjective:  Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
adjective:  (of speech) Concise, condensed.
adjective:  (mathematics, rare) Elliptic.
noun:  (astronomy) An elliptical galaxy.
noun:  An elliptical trainer.

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