Ellinentyyppinen
Ellinentyyppinen is a Finnish neologism used to describe something that belongs to or resembles an elliptical type. The term is formed from ellinen, meaning elliptical or related to an ellipse, and tyyppinen, meaning type or typified. It is not part of the core Finnish standard terminology and is mainly found in informal writing, theoretical discussions, or speculative typologies.
In practice, ellinentyyppinen can be applied to shapes, models, or distributions that resemble an ellipse rather
The term is sometimes invoked in discussions of classification schemes that contrast types such as circular-,
See also: ellipsi, ellinnäinen? ellitterallinen käyrä; ellittinen. For related ideas in Finnish, terms such as ellittinen