I can't find the answer to this question anywhere, and yes, this is important because it represents a gap in my knowledge, and that's just not acceptable for a being that likes to think of herself as being omniscient. ALL the other characteristics have designations (ex. minor axis, semi-major axis). Within the eccentricity equation it is designated by the letter c. e = c/2a, with a the semi-major axis, but of course that's not a name, just a letter (sorry Elon, but X is just a letter. You should have kept the name 'Twitter').
This probably isn't the answer you are looking for, but this is the most accurate answer I can come up. The name is "the distance between the two foci". Like you just mentioned in the update, there isn't a universally-accepted name that is in common use. Any term used to refer to this will require it to be defined in order to be understood unambiguously by a general audience. The name you came up with is just as good as any I would be able to think up. I just wouldn't advise using the term in a proof or academic paper without also giving the definition if you aren't sure that all the readers know exactly what you mean.
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Let f be half the distance between the foci, so one is at (-f,0) and the other is at (0, f)
Let a be half the length of the semi-minor axis, and b be half the length of the semi-major axis.
Then consider the path from one focus to one end of the minor axis then to the other focus.
That path has length sqrt (f^2 + a^2).
Consider the path from one focus to one end of the major axis then to the other focus.
That path has length 2b. So we have f^2 + a^2 = b^2, or f = sqrt (b^2 - a^2)
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It is called "major axis length of the ellipse" or simply "major axis".
I think they are the vertices or verticals
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it's called the fotaintci...
Is it focal length?
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