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Ellipse A conic section which is essentially a stretched circle. Formally, an ellipse can be defined as follows: For two given points, the foci, an ellipse is the locus of points such that the sum of the distance to each focus is constant. The standard form for the equation of an ellipse is given below.
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See also Focus, focal radius, directrices of an ellipse, area of an ellipse, hyperbola
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