elliptic curve

So called because it is the locus of an elliptic function.^[1]

elliptic curve (plural elliptic curves)

1. (algebraic geometry) The algebraic set of an equation which equates the square of one variable to a reduced cubic polynomial in another variable, over some field, and such that the discriminant of the reduced cubic is non-zero.

• elliptic-curve cryptography
• elliptic-curve DSA
• hyperelliptic curve