The process of ovalizing; the process of changing to an oval shape.

present participle of ovalize

simple past tense and past participle of ovalize

Of a circle, to become stretched out in one direction, thereby becoming an oval.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ovalize

(engineering) distortion into an oval shape

plural of foramen ovale

(geometry) A plane curve defined as the set (or locus) of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points is constant (related to an ellipse, for which the sum of the distances is constant).

A type of squid with large, rounded fins resembling a cuttlefish, Sepioteuthis lessoniana.

A type of racetrack, where the circuit is not banked to allow for track in cornering, thus missing positive camber needed to transform centrifugal force into normal force and traction. The shape footprint of the oval itself is unrelated to being "flat", as it only deals with the banking of the track and not the shape traced out by the track.