D. The measure of how stretched out an ellipse is, is referred to as eccentricity.
Eccentricity for an ellipse is the ratio of the length of the semimajor axis (a) to the distance (c )between the ellipse's center and each focus.
e = c/a
The greatest ellipse has the smallest eccentricity, whereas the perfect circle has the maximum eccentricity. The eccentricity of an ellipse e, which ranges from 0 (the limiting case of a circle) to 1 (the length of the ellipse), is used to determine how long it is (the limiting case of infinite elongation, no longer an ellipse but a parabola). Because the distance from the fixed point on the plane has a constant ratio that is less than the distance from the fixed line on the plane, the eccentricity of an ellipse ranges from 0 to 1.
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