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ovalise

ovalise is the alternative form of ovalize.

Meaning of ovalize

Verb

ovalize (third-person singular simple present ovalizes, present participle ovalizing, simple past and past participle ovalized)

  1. Of a circle, to become stretched out in one direction, thereby becoming an oval.
    • The pipe partially restrains the elbow from ovalization but the elbow tendency to ovalize forces the pipe to ovalize.1974, I. S. Tuba, R. A. Selby, Wallace B. Wright, Pressure Vessels and Piping: Analysis and Computers, page 99

Forms of ovalise

third-person singular presentovalises
present participleovalising
past participleovalised
pastovalised

Questions about ovalise

What is ovalise the alternative form of?
Ovalise is the alternative form of ovalize.

Words near ovalise in the dictionary

  1. ovaliform
  2. ovaline
  3. ovaling
  4. ovalisation
  5. ovalisations
  6. ovalise
  7. ovalish
  8. ovalities
  9. ovality
  10. ovalization
  11. ovalizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ovalise (page history and authors); ovalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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