The word 'elliptical' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to describe something that is shaped like an oval or ellipse. For example: The moon had an elliptical appearance when it was partially obscured by clouds.
That is a word, often overused by cinema critics, to describe work that is dreamy, elliptical and apparently disconnected from real life.
Where to stand: The bulk of capacity is seated – the Greek/Roman amphitheatre-style sloping elliptical shape means sightlines are good from almost every angle; the view naturally diminishes the further you are up in the heavens, but big screens tend to that.
Any trace of narrative dynamism the show ever had vanished in a puff of smoke about four years ago, and was replaced by a number of elliptical short stories about the circularity of negative behaviour patterns.
Each satellite covers the continental United States for only 16 hours each day; but with two satellites in sight at any one time, the elliptical orbit places the signal's emitter more directly overhead.
Once he learned that the sun rotated, he comforted himself with the thought that the sun's rays must somehow sweep the planets around it while a quasi magnetism accounted for the exact elliptical path.
Galaxies are traditionally divided into spiral and elliptical categories, but how one evolves into the other remains controversial.
The result, in elliptical and sometimes baffling prose, was "Letters to Olga", a book that could be published only abroad.
Pundits from the left have been quick to suggest that Mr Giuliani is making an elliptical comment about Mr Obama's race, alien paternity and/or Indonesian school days.
Existing observations suggest that dark matter was smoothly distributed around elliptical galaxies by some 8 billion or 9 billion years ago.
Or it is Newton, in proud seclusion in his Cambridge rooms, proving that an inverse-square law of gravity gives rise to elliptical planetary orbits.
It seems to me that either Mr Ryan is an idiot, or he's negotiating more or less rationally on two separate but intimately related fronts.On the front of immediate fiscal politics, Mr Ryan's budget "plan" is best seen as an elliptical statement about the future allocation of the GOP's bargaining power.
