"elliptize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1949, Albert Vinicio Baez, Principles of X-ray Optics and the Development of a Single Stage X-ray Microscope, Stanford University, page 132",
          "text": "We resorted, instead, to depositing on a test flat near the mirror being elliptized.",
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          "ref": "1991, Lonnie Paulos, James E. Tibone, editors, Operative Techniques in Shoulder Surgery, Aspen Publishers, page 86",
          "text": "When a rotator cuff tear was present, the degenerative zone was elliptzed and typically a side-to-side repair was performed.",
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          "ref": "1996, Roger Peyret, editor, Handbook of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Academic Press, page 9",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "1998, Larry M. Stepp, editor, Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI, volume 3352, SPIE, page 767",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2024 May, Georges Ballin, The Bacterium that will kill the Earth \"the Man\", [self-published], page 21",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(To cause) to become elliptic or elliptical."
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        "(ergative, uncommon) (To cause) to become elliptic or elliptical."
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