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elliptizing

elliptizing is the present participle and gerund of elliptize.

Meaning of elliptize

Verb

elliptize (third-person singular simple present elliptizes, present participle elliptizing, simple past and past participle elliptized)

  1. (ergative, uncommon) (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

Questions about elliptizing

What is elliptizing the present participle and gerund of?
Elliptizing is the present participle and gerund of elliptize.

Words near elliptizing in the dictionary

  1. elliptization
  2. elliptizations
  3. elliptize
  4. elliptized
  5. elliptizes
  6. elliptizing
  7. elliptocyte
  8. elliptocytes
  9. elliptocytic
  10. elliptocytoses
  11. elliptocytosis

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