Elliptic integral Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. one of an important class of integrals, occurring in the higher mathematics; so called because one of the integrals expresses the length of an arc of an ellipse.
Definitions
  1. . (Math.) See Integral.
  2. one of an important class of integrals, occurring in the higher mathematics; so called because one of the integrals expresses the length of an arc of an ellipse.

Webster 1913