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ovals

ovals is the plural of oval.

Meaning of oval

Noun

oval (plural ovals)

  1. A two-dimensional one.
    • Near-synonym: ellipse
    Synonyms:
    ellipse
  2. A three-dimensional one.
  3. A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
    • 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
  4. (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
  5. In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.

See all 8 meanings of oval

Phrases with ovals

Questions about ovals

What is ovals the plural of?
Ovals is the plural of oval.

Words near ovals in the dictionary

  1. ovalocytes
  2. ovalocytic
  3. ovalocytosis
  4. ovalocytotic
  5. ovaloid
  6. ovals
  7. ovals of Cassini
  8. Ovaltine
  9. Ovambo
  10. Ovambo sparrowhawk
  11. Ovambo sparrowhawks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ovals (page history and authors); oval (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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