If i am not mistaken, the word elliptical is often mispelled with a single “L” written as eliptical. Elliptical is an adjective word and also called elliptic. Ellipticalness, noun.

Read as i-lip-ti-kuhl in dictionaries. From dictionary.com [Origin: 1650–60; < Gk elleiptik(ós) defective (see ellipsis, -tic) + -al1]

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Elliptical may pertain the form of an ellipse.

Maybe, marked by some grammatical ellipsis.

Elliptical may refer to a trainer, machine or a galaxy.

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