meaning of oval
1. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
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. Broadly elliptical.
4. A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
5. 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"
Related Words
oval | oval kumquat | oval office | oval window | ovalbumen | ovalbumin | ovaliform | ovalipes | ovalipes ocellatus | ovally |
