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Q: What is the name of the two centers of an ellipse?
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What are two points inside a ellipse?

What are two points inside a ellipse


What two things does every ellipse have?

An ellipse have two focal points.


What shape has two foci's?

An ellipse, a hyperbola.


How many lines of symmetry does an ellipse have?

An ellipse has two lines of mirror symmetry: the line that includes the two foci of the ellipse and the perpendicular bisector of the segment of that line between the two foci.


What is the name of a shape with 2 straight and 2 curved sides?

It is simply an elongated circle, possibly an oval but NOT an ellipse. It is not an ellipse because it has two straight sections. An ellipse is curved at all points along its perimeter.


What two points define the shape of the ellipse?

The two foci are necessary to define the location of an ellipse, but the shape depends on the eccentricity, which is related to the lengths of the two axes.


What is the name for '...'?

... is called an "ellipse"


Ellipse has two?

Foci.


Are two triangles an ellipse?

No


What is the two central points of an ellipse?

The two central points of an ellipse are officially known as the foci (plural of focus).


What does the word ellipse means?

Ellipse is a term for an oval. Specifically it is a shape where the sum of the distance of every point on the ellipse to two points, called the foci, is equal.


What is an eccentric circle?

For Ellipse: The 2 circles made using the the ellipse center as their center, and major and minor axis of the ellipse as the dia.For Hyperbola: 2 Circles with centers at the center of symmetry of the hyperbola and dia as the transverse and conjugate axes of the hyperbolaRead more: eccentric-circles