What is this shape?

[Doc Tinker]

Take it from a guy who was expelled from Geometry Class for goofing off too much. Old Mrs Adams just didn't know how to handle an over active teen, and that was in the days when they paddled you for being bad. No! It doesn't make sense!







Doc

 

['956Wheel]

How about OBLONG?

 

[thepitts]

How about a suppository

 

[Pete Peterson]

Cylinder:A cylinder is a simple closed surface formed by two congruent simple closed regions (not polygonal regions) in parallel planes, and one or more surfaces (at least one of which is curved) formed by the union of the line segments that join corresponding points of curves that bound the two congruent regions.

Also called a capsule... ... ..... Pete

 

[jwgary]

I think oblong is probably the best word, however, it is usually used as an adjective not a noun. I think an oval is the same thing as an elipse, which has no straight sides. An elipse has two foci (focuses for us non english types) and every point on the elipse forms a triangle with the foci whose sides all add up to the same length. Drive two nails into a board and loop a piece of string around them. Thak a pencil and push against the string and draw around the nails. Voila, an elipse.



That still doesn't clear up the oblong thing does it?

 

[LandShark]

Quite the can of worms I've opened here. I think oblong was the word I was looking for. However there are numerous conflicting definitions of oblong. Oblong can be a noun or adjective. Some definitions fit quite well: A rectangle with curved ends. Other definitions are to general: any object longer than it is wide. I'm amazed at the differences in definitions of 'oblong' in different dictionaries.



Anyway, thanks for all the input. We're getting closer. The truth is out there!

 

[WOWZY]

I think it's called a "Slot"

 

[Mike Sisk]

Photoshop calls it a "rounded rectangle". That seems right.



An ellipse is defined as a type of conic section (i. e. the intersection of a 2D flat plane with a 3D cone).



An oval is a closed elliptical or egg-shaped curve.



Neither has parallel segments.