OVAL

elliptic, egg-shaped, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate

(adjective) rounded like an egg

ellipse, oval

(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

oval (plural ovals)

A shape rather like an egg or an ellipse.

A sporting arena etc. of this shape.

(math) In a projective plane, a set of points, no three collinear, such that there is a unique tangent line at each point. (A tangent line is defined as a line meeting the point set at only one point, also known as a 1-secant.)

Adjective

oval (comparative more oval, superlative most oval)

Having the shape of an oval.

Of or pertaining to an ovum.

Usage notes

The adjectives oval, ovate, and ovoid all come from roots meaning "egg-shaped". They are usually denotatively synonymous. A connotation of one end being bigger than the other (which is often true of eggs) may or may not be implied. Of the three, oval is the one mostly likely to connote a symmetrical ellipse.

Anagrams

• vola

Proper noun

the Oval

(cricket) A cricket ground in South London.

(US) Short for Oval Office.

Anagrams

• vola

Source: Wiktionary

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O"val, a. Etym: [F. ovale, fr. L. ovum egg. Cf. Egg, Ovum.]

1. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. [Obs.]

2. 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.

3. (Bot.)

Definition: Broadly elliptical. Oval chuck (Mech.), 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.

O"val, n.

Definition: A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse. Cassinian oval (Geom.), 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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