Definition of "ellipticals" [ellipticals]

• Plural form of elliptical. (noun)

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• ""I call ellipticals feel-good machines because it's really easy to get on and ho-hum your workout," said Douglass, who is based in Salt Lake City, Utah."
• "In a telephone news conference on Wednesday and a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature, Marat Gilfanov and his colleague, Akos Bogdan, both of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, said that for at least one class of galaxies in the universe, the roundish conglomerations of older, redder stars known as ellipticals, these supernovas are mostly produced by collisions."
• "Cross-training machines, also known as ellipticals, offer similar calorie burning benefits to jogging, but without the injury to back, knees, hips or ankles."