A fanlight that has the shape of half an ellipse, often placed over a door; rods or bars radiating from a point are suggestive of the shape of an open fan. also called a semielliptical fanlight.
A type of gilgai dominated by elliptical, closed and semi-closed depressions (micro-lows) separated by low mounds or ridges (micro-highs); the prevailing type of gilgai on mildly sloping terrain (slopes 3 - 8 %); as slope increases, basins become more eccentric and the occurrence of interconnected micro-lows increases. compare - circular gilgai, linear gilgai, gilgai. sw