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Webster 1913 Edition
Oval
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.
O′val
,Noun.
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.Webster 1828 Edition
Oval
O'VAL
,Adj.
1.
Of the shape or figure of an egg; oblong; curvilinear; resembling the longitudinal section of an egg. It is sometimes synonymous with elliptical; but an ellipsis is equally broad at both ends, and is not strictly egg-shaped.2.
Pertaining to eggs; done in the egg; as oval conceptions.O'VAL
,Noun.