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oval
has definitions from the fields of mathematics,geometry
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[ adjective ] rounded like an egg
Synonyms Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)In the tintable group are high and little heels , squared and oval throats , and shantung like textures . (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)Individual nuclei were usually oval to round , though occasionally elongated , and frequently small and somewhat pyknotic . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)Matching photographs in oval frames of Mme_Bonenfant and an elderly man who must be Alix 's grandfather . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)Oval face without an expression in_the_world . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics,geometry) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
Synonyms Examples "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant" Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)Then I saw the father 's head slightly turn ; gauche rainbow shapes replaced the poignant ovals of gold . I looked_back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car 's rear_window . I looked_back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car 's rear_window . Related terms |
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