Definition of Ovals. Meaning of Ovals. Synonyms of Ovals

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Definition of Ovals

Oval
Oval O"val, a. [F. ovale, fr. L. ovum egg. Cf. Egg, Ovum.] 1. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. [Obs.] 2. 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. 3. (Bot.) Broadly elliptical. Oval chuck (Mech.), a lathe chuck so constructed that work attached to it, and cut by the turning tool in the usual manner, becomes of an oval form.
Oval
Oval O"val, n. A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse. Cassinian oval (Geom.), the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed points is constant; -- so called from Cassini, who first investigated the curve. Thus, in the diagram, if P moves so that P A.P B is constant, the point P describes a Cassinian oval. The locus may consist of a single closed line, as shown by the dotted line, or of two equal ovals about the points A and B.

Meaning of Ovals from wikipedia

- and an oval would generally have an axis of symmetry, but this is not required. Here are examples of ovals described elsewhere: C****ini ovals portions...
- The Oval, currently named for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, located in the borough of Lambeth...
- one of these ovals, with the body it orbited around at one focus of the oval. Other names include C****inian ovals, C****inian curves and ovals of C****ini...
- ovals, since IndyCar does not usually run on ovals shorter than 3/4-mile. The 1-mile ovals have lost a great deal of their former importance for oval...
- arbitrary real numbers. Then the Cartesian oval is the locus of points S satisfying d(P, S) + m d(Q, S) = a. The two ovals formed by the four equations d(P, S)...
- cars coming towards and moving away from their vantage point. Traditional ovals (such as Indianapolis) offered only limited linear views of the course,...
- The Barton Oval, also known as "Barton Terrace Ovals", is a cricket ground in North Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia. The first recorded...
- Motor Speedway oval; 149,500 rpm on short ovals and road/street courses Length: 203.94 in (5,180 mm) on road/street course and short ovals; 197.33 in (5...
- In telecommunications and fiber optics, ovality or noncircularity is the degree of deviation from perfect circularity of the cross section of the core...
- In mathematics, Newton's theorem about ovals states that the area cut off by a secant of a smooth convex oval is not an algebraic function of the secant...