Opalizes vs Ovalizes - What's the difference?
opalizes | ovalizes |
(opalize)
To convert into a form of opal or chalcedony, especially to convert wood into such a fossilized form.
To make opalescent.
(ovalize)
Of a circle, to become stretched out in one direction, thereby becoming an oval.
*1974 , I. S. Tuba, R. A. Selby, Wallace B. Wright, Pressure Vessels and Piping: Analysis and Computers , page 99:
* 2003 , G. A. Antaki, Piping and Pipeline Engineering , page 285:
* 2012 , Karl J. Niklas, Hanns-Christof Spatz, Plant Physics , page 192:
As verbs the difference between opalizes and ovalizes
is that opalizes is (opalize) while ovalizes is (ovalize).opalizes
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(head)opalize
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Alternative forms
*opaliseVerb
(opaliz)ovalizes
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(head)ovalize
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(ovaliz)- The pipe partially restrains the elbow from ovalization but the elbow tendency to ovalize' forces the pipe to ' ovalize .
- Under the effect of soil and external loads, the buried pipe will tend to ovalize , causing through-wall bending stresses.
- We say “in theory” because the cross section of a thin-walled tube can ovalize upon bending, which can lead to a local collapse of the tube.