What do you mean by ellipse?

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In mathematics, an ellipse is a curve in a plane surrounding two focal points such that the sum of the distances to the two focal points is constant for every point on the curve. As such, it is a generalization of a circle, which is a special type of an ellipse having both focal points at the same lo...
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Ellipses are the closed type of conic section: a plane curve resulting from the intersection of a cone by a plane. In terms of locus, ellipse is a curve in a plane surrounding two focal points such that the sum of the distances to the two focal points is constant for every point on the curve. A circle...
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Ellipses are the closed type of conic section: a plane curve resulting from the intersection of a cone by a plane. In terms of locus, ellipse is a curve in a plane surrounding two focal points such that the sum of the distances to the two focal points is constant for every point on the curve. A circle is a special type of an ellipse having both focal points at the same location. The shape of an ellipse (how 'elongated' it is) is represented by its eccentricity, which for an ellipse can be any number from 0 (the limiting case of a circle) to arbitrarily close to but less than 1. read less
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Locus of a point such that whose sum of distances from two fixed point is constant.
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(square of (x/a) ) +(square of (y/b) )=1 and a>b and eccentricity e <1. It must contain 1 major axes, 1 minor axes.
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