oval

From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊvəl

oval (plural ovals)

1. A shape rather like an egg or an ellipse.
2. A sporting arena etc. of this shape.
3. (mathematics) 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.)

• hyperoval
• roval

oval (comparative more oval, superlative most oval)

1. Having the shape of an oval.
2. Of or pertaining to an ovum.

   oval conceptions

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.

• bioval
• ovaline
• ovalish
• ovally
• plurioval
• monoval
• unioval

• ovoid
• ovum

• vola

oval (epicene, plural ovales)

1. oval (oval-shaped)

• ovaláu

ou +‎ -al

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /oˈval/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uˈbal/

oval (masculine and feminine plural ovals)

1. oval

   Synonym: ovalat

oval m (plural ovals)

1. oval

• ovoide

• “oval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “oval” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “oval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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oval (comparative ovaler, superlative am ovalsten)

1. oval

• eiförmig
• eirund

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”)

oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovaler, definite plural ovalene)

1. an oval

• ovalformet

• “oval” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”)

oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovalar, definite plural ovalane)

1. an oval

• “oval” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

oval m or f (plural ovais, comparable)

1. oval (shaped like an egg)

• ovalado, ovoide

• IPA^(key): /oˈbal/, [oˈβal]

oval (plural ovales)

1. oval (shaped like an oval)

   Synonym: ovalado

• óvalo
• ovoide
• ovalado
• huevo

• “oval” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.