FRUITLAND - Idaho State police have released two names from the U.S. Highway 95 crash that killed two pedestrians Wednesday in Fruitland. Jason Verwer, 37, is in custody and is being held for a mental health evaluation, according to a release from IS [...]
Noun. 1. ellipse-a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant. oval. conic, conic section - (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone.
An ellipse, informally, is an oval or a squished circle. In primitive geometrical terms, an ellipse is the figure you can draw in the sand by the following process: Push two sticks into the sand. Take a piece of string and form a loop that is big enough to go around the two sticks and still have some slack.