{The Oval Circle [continued (3)]}[3rd February 1991]

[Redbook8:207][19910203:2020b]{The Oval Circle [continued (3)]}[3rd February 1991]

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I have a more * serious problem with combining Outer Curve (Oval or Ellipse) with Inner Circle, retaining Cardinals and Diagonals on the same lines through the same centre, o[uter] c[ircle] not being inside i[nner] c[ircle] at any point. This is probably my ineptitude, rather than a technical defect of symbolism.

‘Axis, n. (pl. axes). 1. Imaginary line about which a body rotates, or by revolution about which a plane is conceived as generating a solid (sphere, core, cylinder);

line dividing regular figure symmetrically.

2. Straight line from and to end of a body, as ~ of equator (polar diameter of earth).

3. [etc.]**

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‘Oval, a. & n. 1. Egg-shaped or ellipsoidal; having the outline of an egg or elliptical; hence ~LY² adv., ~NESS n.

2. Closed curve with one axis considerably longer than the other, like ellipse or outline of egg; thing with ~ outline;

[etc.]**

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‘Ellipse¹, n. Regular oval;

figure produced when a cone# is cut by a plane making a smaller angle with the base than than the side of the cone makes.... [etc.]**

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‘The ellipse is symmetric about both its axes.’#*

(ie not egg-shaped)

*[See last previous entry]

**[Square brackets as in ms, indicating insertion/addition/substitution in ms]

***Conc[ise] O[xford] D[ictionary]

**** – ibid [Concise Oxford Dictionary]

#cf III. [[Redbook3:211-214][19870419:1050h](THE STRUCTURE OF TOTALITY)[19th April 1987]] 211-213 (Cones)

#*– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 4:459

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