elliptize
/ɪˈlɪp.taɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
(To cause) to become elliptic or elliptical.
Example Sentences
- "We resorted, instead, to depositing on a test flat near the mirror being elliptized."
- "When a rotator cuff tear was present, the degenerative zone was elliptzed and typically a side-to-side repair was performed."
- "Note that least-square discretizations are also equivalent to making the convection terms elliptic; another way to ‘elliptize’ convection was derived from the Lax—Wendroff scheme by Lerat et al. (1982)."
- "The basic configuration was optimized for a 10 arcmin FoV at a Cassegrain focus issued from a four-segment spherical primary obtained by replication, a spherically polished secondary elliptized by partial vacuum (g=1) and a doublet-lens corrector."
- "Thus a unified approach to both problems suggests itself. Following an idea of R. Picard (1985) we do it in such a way that one operator structures the null space of the other. Thus the operators mutually ‘elliptize’, simplifying the presentation."
- "Although in almost all cases the orbits of the inner planets should remain within a certain range of distances from each other; in a "probability" estimated (in the models) at a few%, it is possible that the orbits elliptize enough to intersect and cause a catastrophic destabilization of the orbits of the inner planets."
Etymology
From elliptic + -ize.