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Plural of oval

regular plural

The plural of oval is ovals.

Forms of oval

Singularoval /ˈəʊvəl/
Pluralovals
Countablecountable

Ovals in a sentence

  • 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
  • On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.From the entry grid
  • D-shaped ovals are modified ovals that have one long sweeping arc of a turn for a frontstretch instead of a straightaway.2009, Mark Martin, NASCAR For Dummies, →ISBN. From the entry frontstretch
  • Open fans, ovals, pyramids, spread wings, horseshoes, scallops, semi or full circles—rhapsodies of trim to tiara the brain.2002, Susan Hahn, “Head”, in Mother in Summer, Evanston, Ill.: TriQuarterly Books, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry tiara
  • However, tubes of the same dimensions also look like solid cylinders, because their ovals are automatically treated as the top or bottom faces of solids.1985 November 19, Erik Sandberg-Diment, “PERSONAL COMPUTERS; DESIGNING IS MADE EASY BY AUTOCAD”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry dimension

Meaning of oval

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

Full definition of oval

Questions about the plural of oval

What is the plural of oval?
The plural of oval is ovals.
Is oval countable?
Oval is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oval (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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