oval

plural ovals

1. An elongated round shape resembling an ellipse or an egg.
   1. A two-dimensional one.

      Near-synonym: ellipse

      Synonyms: ellipse

   2. A three-dimensional one.
2. A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.

   On the dirt oval's far side

   2011, Scott Sigler, The All-Pro, BookBaby

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   At the far end of the wide corridor were the doors of a ward. The panels were frosted save for ovals of clear glass at face level.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 19

3. AustraliaA sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
4. mathematicsIn a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.

comparative more oval · superlative most oval

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

   oval conceptions

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   Every congenital abnormality is doubtless due to a peculiarity in the sperm or oval elements or in their mingling, or to some disturbance in their early development.

   1901, Havelock Ellis, Sexual inversion, page 187

1. ball gamesA cricket ground in South London.
2. USabbreviationellipsisgovernmentEllipsis of Oval Office.

   We went to the Oval and Trump came in almost immediately […]

   2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 28

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   Musk, wearing a black “DOGE” cap and black “Dogefather” T-shirt, looked around the Oval, which Trump has tarted up to look like a Vegas gift shop, and gushed that it “finally has the majesty that it deserves, thanks to the president.”

   2025 May 31, Maureen Dowd, “Tech Bro Had to Go”, in The New York Times, →ISSN