The dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : to converse in elliptical sentences. ,an elliptical prose that is difficult to translate. From Dictionary.com.
There is something in gauge theory called the elliptic sequence. From Wordnik.com. [Does Space Expand?] Reference
Certicom specializes in what is called elliptic curve cryptography, which is used to encrypt electronic data. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
The resulting space is a closed manifold (without any boundary), and it is the carrier of the so-called elliptic non-Euclidean geometry of F. Klein (S.M. Coxeter, p. 13). From Wordnik.com. [INFINITY] Reference
They also can be grouped according to the central algorithm used, such as elliptic curve cryptography. From Wordnik.com. [Government Computer News Current Issue] Reference
The leaflets are thin, ovate to elliptic and 1 - 2 cm long. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
MR. MCCURRY: Well, I gave a good, appropriately elliptic answer. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
The arch of the entrance doorway in the south wall is elliptic in form. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
They all had eight truck wheels under each, and elliptic steel springs. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887] Reference
The passage from the peristyle, 7, the position of the elliptic chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
According to Pausanias, it was made of cedar-wood, and elliptic in shape. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
These are the ends of elliptic cylinders in connection with the vaulting. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
LEAVES: To 15 cm long, short stalked, ovate to elliptic, margin serrated. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Blade up to 15 cm long, usually 5-10 cm long, elliptic, entire or undulate. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Leaves opposite, shiny, elliptic to obovate, broadly ovate with a sharp tip. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The leaves are elliptic, acuminate, and marked with three longitudinal nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Suppose, for a moment, that it is denied that the sun moves in an elliptic orbit!. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The earth revolves round the sun in an orbit of elliptic form, so do the other planets. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
He looked out at the slow dark elliptic of the blades turning in the dry and windbent grass. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
Aether currents, this onward movement changes the circular orbit into an orbit of elliptic form. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
But it may be still more completely hidden, as for instance in the common elliptic trammel, Fig. 42. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference
The usual way of expressing this is to say that the vault is intersected across by an elliptic cylinder. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
LEAVES: Up to 12 cm long, narrowly elliptic with serrate margins, opposite, alternate on coppice shoots. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The Montagne de la Fée is a galgal or tumulus of elliptic form, about thirty feet high, formed of dry stones. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Afterwards he says, 'They move in an elliptic figure or near it,' and finally he arrived at the conclusion that. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Leaflets elliptic or widened towards the tip, usually hairless above and velvety rusty hairy to hairless beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The first is, that all the planets move round the Sun in elliptic orbits, and that the orb occupies one of the foci. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Chamberlin and Moulton's hypothesis, the secondary nuclei in them must revolve in a great variety of elliptic orbits. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
He definitely plans to see him and see him soon and we just are not -- we're being a little elliptic about the timing. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
Each plant produces from four to six pods, which are of a curious, elliptic form, and contain three or four large peas. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
LEAVES: To 10 cm long, usually opposite, ovate to elliptic with a crenate (bluntly notched) margin, rough above, softly hairy below. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
LEAVES: 3-foliolate, the middle leaflet being largest, obovate and with toothed margin, lateral ones much smaller and usually elliptic. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
It is elliptic, 459 ft. long and 132 wide, surrounded by a double wall 60 ft. high, each with two stages of arches, and in each stage 60 arches. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Then Wiles noted a 1987 proof by Ken Ribet of the University of California, Berkeley, that any such elliptic curves could not be of a certain type. From Wordnik.com. [New Answer For An Old Question] Reference
He started with a 1984 finding that if there are any numbers for which Fermat's equation holds, then the solutions can be fashioned into something called an elliptic curve. From Wordnik.com. [New Answer For An Old Question] Reference
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