elliptize

English

Etymology

From elliptic +‎ -ize.

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Verb

elliptize (third-person singular simple present elliptizes, present participle elliptizing, simple past and past participle elliptized)

1. (ergative, uncommon) (To cause) to become elliptic or elliptical.
   • 1949, Albert Vinicio Baez, Principles of X-ray Optics and the Development of a Single Stage X-ray Microscope, Stanford University, page 132:

     We resorted, instead, to depositing on a test flat near the mirror being elliptized.

   • 1991, Lonnie Paulos, James E. Tibone, editors, Operative Techniques in Shoulder Surgery, Aspen Publishers, page 86:

     When a rotator cuff tear was present, the degenerative zone was elliptzed and typically a side-to-side repair was performed.

   • 1996, Roger Peyret, editor, Handbook of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Academic Press, page 9:

     Note that least-square discretizations are also equivalent to making the convection terms elliptic; another way to ‘elliptize’ convection was derived from the Lax—Wendroff scheme by Lerat et al. (1982).

   • 1998, Larry M. Stepp, editor, Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI, volume 3352, SPIE, page 767:

     The basic configuration was optimized for a 10 arcmin FoV at a Cassegrain focus issued from a four-segment spherical primary obtained by replication, a spherically polished secondary elliptized by partial vacuum (g=1) and a doublet-lens corrector.

   • 2013 July, Rolf Leis, Initial Boundary Value Problems in Mathematical Physics, Dover Publications, page 170:

     Thus a unified approach to both problems suggests itself. Following an idea of R. Picard (1985) we do it in such a way that one operator structures the null space of the other. Thus the operators mutually ‘elliptize’, simplifying the presentation.

   • 2024 May, Georges Ballin, The Bacterium that will kill the Earth "the Man", [self-published], page 21:

     Although in almost all cases the orbits of the inner planets should remain within a certain range of distances from each other; in a "probability" estimated (in the models) at a few%, it is possible that the orbits elliptize enough to intersect and cause a catastrophic destabilization of the orbits of the inner planets.