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Ovoid

An egg-shaped curve. Lockwood (1967) calls the negative pedal curve of an ellipse with eccentricity e<=1/2 an ovoid.

SEE ALSO: Oval

REFERENCES:

Lockwood, E. H. A Book of Curves. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 157, 1967.




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