elliptize

present singular third person elliptizes · participle present elliptizing · participle past elliptized · past elliptized

1. ergativeuncommon(To cause) to become elliptic or elliptical.

   We resorted, instead, to depositing on a test flat near the mirror being elliptized.

   1949, Albert Vinicio Baez, Principles of X-ray Optics and the Development of a Single Stage X-ray Microscope, Stanford University, page 132

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   When a rotator cuff tear was present, the degenerative zone was elliptzed and typically a side-to-side repair was performed.

   1991, Lonnie Paulos, James E. Tibone, editors, Operative Techniques in Shoulder Surgery, Aspen Publishers, page 86

   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).

   1996, Roger Peyret, editor, Handbook of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Academic Press, page 9

   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.

   1998, Larry M. Stepp, editor, Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI, volume 3352, SPIE, page 767

   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.

   2013 July, Rolf Leis, Initial Boundary Value Problems in Mathematical Physics, Dover Publications, page 170

   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.

   2024 May, Georges Ballin, The Bacterium that will kill the Earth "the Man", [self-published], page 21