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A continuous curve surrounding two points will be called an ellipse. Very strictly speaking, the ellipse, circle, etc is the bit inside the curve. e.g. " a circle is bounded by ... "

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Even more strictly speaking, it is any closed curve around two points - it could wobble all over the place.

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