elliptical
derNounWord details
- German meaning
- Ein kleiner, planetenähnlicher Himmelskörper, der die Sonne umkreist.
- English meaning
- Asteroid
- Synonym
- Asteroid
- German example
- Der Planetoid bewegte sich auf einer elliptischen Bahn um die Sonne.
- English example
- The asteroid moved in an elliptical orbit around the sun.
- Type
- Noun
- Article
- der
- Singular Form
- der Planetoid
- Plural Form
- die Planetoiden
Related words
- elliptisch
elliptical
- elliptisch
elliptically
- Umlaufbahn
Orbit
- elliptisch
Elliptical means that something has the shape of an ellipse or relates to an ellipse; in linguistics, it refers to a sentence in which one or more words have been omitted but can be inferred from the context.