Oval

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  • adjective. Resembling an egg in shape.
  • adjective. Resembling an ellipse in shape; elliptical.
  • noun. An egg-shaped or elliptical form or figure.
  • noun. An elliptical track, as for racing or athletic events.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of, pertaining to, or used in an ovation: as, triumphal, oval, and civil crowns.
  • noun. Specifically, in athletics, an elliptical field, or one on which an elliptical track is laid out.
  • Of or pertaining to an egg.
  • Having the shape of or resembling the longitudinal section of an egg; hence, elliptical.
  • In zoology and botany, broadly elliptical, or elliptical with the breadth considerably more than half the length.
  • noun. A figure in the general shape of the lengthwise outline of an egg, or resembling the longitudinal section of an egg.
  • noun. Something which has such a shape, as a plot of ground, or an open place in a city: as, Berkeley oval; “The Oval” at Kensington, London.
  • noun. Specifically, same as cartouche, 4.
  • noun. See the adjectives.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception.
  • adjective. Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
  • adjective. Broadly elliptical.
  • adjective. a lathe chuck so constructed that work attached to it, and cut by the turning tool in the usual manner, becomes of an oval form.
  • noun. A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
  • noun. the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed points is constant; -- so called from Cassini, who first investigated the curve. Thus, in the diagram, if P moves so that P A.P B is constant, the point P describes a Cassinian oval. The locus may consist of a single closed line, as shown by the dotted line, or of two equal ovals about the points A and B.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A shape rather like an egg or an ellipse.
  • noun. A sporting arena etc. of this shape.
  • adjective. Having the shape of an oval.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to an ovum.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
  • adjective. rounded like an egg
  • Word Usage
    "You are banned for life because of your indecent activities in oval office."
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