VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / oval

Thesaurus: oval

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

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

planedefinitionellipticaldefinitionbroadlydefinitionchuckdefinitioncirculardefinitioncloseddefinitioncompletelydefinitionconedefinitioncurvedefinitioncuttingdefinitionfiguredefinitionintersectiondefinitionlikedefinitionresultingdefinitionroundeddefinitionattacheddefinitionbecomesdefinitionbodydefinitionbothdefinitionbreadthdefinitionbroaderdefinitionconceptionsdefinitioncurvilineardefinitiondonedefinitioneggsdefinitionellipsedefinitionendsdefinitionformdefinition

Definitions

  1. a. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
  2. a. 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. a. Broadly elliptical.
  4. n. A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
  5. adj. rounded like an egg
  6. n. a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
  7. Broadly elliptical. Oval chuck (Mech.), a lathe chuck soconstructed that work attached to it, and cut by the turning tool inthe usual manner, becomes of an oval form.
  8. j:73/n:27 n a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it s rounded like an egg