Definition Real life Examples

Ellipse is a regular oval  The oval office of the

shaped, traced by a point White House
moving in a plane so that the  Orbit of the planets in
sum of its distances from two the solar system
other points (the foci) is  Whispering gallery
constant, or resulting when a  Elliptical pool table
cone is cut an oblique plane
that does not intersect the
base.
Ellipse

Examples Non-examples

 x 2+9 y 2+4y-72y+139=0
 3 x 2+2 y 2+24x-4y+62=0