Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Oval
User Submitted Origins
English
80%
Scandinavian
10%
Jewish
10%
International Interest
Also see international interest
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
adjective O"val
Senses
- Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.(Obs)
- 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.
- [Bot] Broadly elliptical.
Etymology: F. ovale, fr. L. ovum egg. Cf. Egg Ovum
noun O"val
A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
Other Dictionary Sources
- A closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- Rounded like an egg
Wiktionary
From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.
- A shape rather like an egg or an ellipse.
- A sporting arena etc. of this shape.
- (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.)
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